Eighteenth Quotes

71 Eighteenth quotes by 68 unique authors

Shall we not, then, lay down a law, in the first place, that boys shall abstain altogether from wine till their eighteenth year, thereby teaching… — Plato
It never occurred to any Enlightenment figure in the eighteenth century that law was not preferable to man. — Gore Vidal
In pure literature, the writers of the eighteenth century achieved, indeed, many triumphs; but their great, their peculiar, triumphs were in the domain of thought. — Lytton Strachey
Five years of Prohibition have had, at least, this one benign effect: they have completely disposed of all the favorite arguments of the Prohibitionists. None… — H. L. Mencken
The capital amassed in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries through various forms of slave economy is still in circulation, said De Jong, still bearing interest,… — W G Sebald
My next book is also set in the eighteenth century. Its about the Revolution, with the focus on the year 1776. Its about Washington and… — David McCullough
I would just like to mention Robert Houdin who in the eighteenth century invented the vanishing birdcage trick and the theater matinee - may he… — Orson Welles
The first-cause and prime-mover argument, brilliantly proffered by St. Thomas Aquinas in the fourteenth century (and brilliantly refuted by David Hume in the eighteenth century),… — Michael Shermer
The liberals of the eighteenth century, guided by the ideas of natural law and of the Enlightenment, demanded for everyone equality of political and civil… — Ludwig von Mises
It may happen in the next hundred years that the English novelists of the present day will come to be valued as we now value… — Evelyn Waugh
You remember that my great vision came to me when I was only nine years old, and you have seen that I was not much… — Black Elk
Pure phenomenology claims to be the science of pure phenomena. This concept of the phenomenon, which was developed under various names as early as the… — Edmund Husserl
Interestingly, the actress who, in her own persona, may be gentle, shy, and socially awkward, someone whose hand trembles when pouring a cup of tea… — Wallace Shawn
I was very much into buying contemporary art, but I've just decided I want to get rid of it all. Not that it's not great… — Sylvester Stallone
On the eighteenth of December 1972, when we thought we were getting another of the hundreds of little tactical air raids, we heard the bombs… — James Stockdale
Eighteenth century American furniture and the design of the architects Greene and Greene are my special love. — Barbra Streisand
Until the eighteenth century, people believed that biblical paradise, the Garden of Eden, was a real place. It appeared on maps--located, ironically, at the confluence… — Eric Weiner
Lying on the floor, with the carved panels of the ceiling flickering dimly above, I found myself thinking that I had always heretofore assumed that… — Diana Gabaldon
The 'polymath' had already died out by the close of the eighteenth century, and in the following century intensive education replaced extensive, so that by… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Not fair? Oh, I'm sorry I get this lovely laptop computing device when all you get is the ability to walk, control your hands, and… — Jordan Sonnenblick

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