Enlightenment/Age of Reason Quotes

Quotes from various Enlightenment authors
 

Knowing our own strength

Submitted by scotese on Sat, 2009-04-18 09:43

Although men are accused of not knowing their own weakness, yet perhaps few know their own strength. It is in men as in soils, where sometimes there is a vein of gold which the owner knows not of.

Jonathan Swift
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Blades of Grass - Part 1

Submitted by scotese on Tue, 2006-09-12 12:32

A blade of grass is a blade of grass but the proper study of Mankind is man.

Alexander Pope
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Crazy about the Drink

Submitted by scotese on Sat, 2009-04-18 09:41

A tavern is a place where madness is sold by the bottle.

Jonathan Swift
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Mistakes were Made

Submitted by scotese on Sat, 2009-04-18 09:40

A man should never be ashamed to own that he has been in the wrong, which is but saying... that he is wiser today than yesterday.

Jonathan Swift
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Briskly Moving

Submitted by Gary on Fri, 2010-02-05 12:33

For he counteracts the Devil, who is Death, by brisking about the life.

Christopher Smart
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Like What You Love

Submitted by scotese on Sat, 2009-04-18 09:45

As love without esteem is capricious and volatile; esteem without love is languid and cold.

Jonathan Swift
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Intent

Submitted by scotese on Sat, 2009-04-18 09:38

A lie does not consist in the indirect position of words, but in the desire and intention, by false speaking, to deceive and injure your neighbour.

Jonathan Swift
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Trivia

Submitted by scotese on Tue, 2006-09-12 12:31

What dire offense from amorous causes springs,
What might contests rise from trivial things.

Alexander Pope
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Full Swig

Submitted by doriso on Tue, 2010-04-13 18:14

A little learning is a dangerous thing; Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring.

Alexander Pope
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Compartmentalize

Submitted by scotese on Sat, 2009-04-18 09:42

A wise man should have money in his head, but not in his heart.

Jonathan Swift
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