The chief business of seventeenth-century philosophy was…

The chief business of twentieth-century philosopy is to reckon with twentieth-century history.

— Anonymous

“Twentieth-century philosophy is not unique in its ability to confuse puzzles with problems.”

— Susan Neiman

In philosophy, you have to reckon with the implicit level of an accumulated reserve, and thus with a very great number of relays, with…

— Jacques Derrida

In the 20th century philosophy of time for a great many theorists became part of science because it was time as is studied in…

— William Lane Craig

Without God man has no reference point to define himself. 20th century philosophy manifests the chaos of man seeking to understand himself as a…

— R. C. Sproul

We should have scant notion of the gardens of these New England colonists in the seventeenth century were it not for a cheerful traveller…

— Alice Morse Earle

As late as the seventeenth century, monarchs owned so little furniture that they had to travel from palace to palace with wagon-loads of plate…

— Aldous Huxley

Almost everything that distinguishes the modern world from earlier centuries is attributable to science, which achieved its most spectacular triumphs in the seventeenth century.

— Bertrand Russell

“Menaced by environmental problems, torn by struggles between the tiny coterie of wealthy Spaniards at the center and a teeming, fractious polyglot periphery, battered…

— Charles C. Mann

In the seventeenth century, the science of medicine had not wholly cut asunder from astrology and necromancy; and the trusting Christian still believed in…

— Alice Morse Earle

Facts, like telescopes and wigs for gentlemen, were a seventeenth century invention.

— Alasdair MacIntyre

The seventeenth century is everywhere a time in which the state's power over everything individual increases, whether that power be in absolutist hands or…

— Jacob Burckhardt

A weekday edition of The New York Times contains more information than the average person was likely to come across in a lifetime in…

— Richard Saul Wurman

A seventeenth-century house can be recognized by its steep roof, massive central chimney and utter porchlessness. Some of those houses have a second-story overhang,…

— John Updike

Back then, when I had that original idea to write about the seventeenth century, the whole thing was set in 1666. I was thinking…

— Danielle Dutton