Best Eighteenth Century Quotes

49 Eighteenth Century quotes by 47 unique authors

The poetry from the eighteenth century was prose; the prose from the seventeenth century was poetry. — David Hare
There may have been somewhere, as a few eighteenth-century philosophers dreamed, a group of peaceful men who got together one evening after work and drew… — Henry Hazlitt
Scottish operative lodges began in the seventeenth century to admit non-operative members as accepted or gentleman masons and that by the early eighteenth century in… — John Hamill
Round my cradle shimmered the last moonbeams of the eighteenth century and the first morning rays of the nineteenth. — Heinrich Heine
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
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
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
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
I think if you went back to the eighteenth century and you asked a fifteen year old boy, 'Would you like to marry a woman… — John Green
The teacher manages to get along still with the cumbersome algebraic analysis, in spite of its difficulties and imperfections, and avoids the smooth infinitesimal calculus,… — Felix Klein
What Marie Antoinette was to eighteenth-century France, Mary Pickford is to twentieth-century America. — Frank Crowninshield
Book reviewing dates only to the eighteenth century, when, for the first time, there were so many books being printed that magazines - they were… — Jill Lepore
However, the sciences of society and of history retained their old subservient relation to metaphysics for a long time - well into the eighteenth century. — Wilhelm Dilthey

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