1600 – 1800 CE
The Age of Reason, emphasizing science, liberty, and progress.
The more I read, the more I acquire, the more certain I am t…
— Voltaire
"The more I read, the more I acquire, the more certain I am that I know nothing."
Be not astonished at new ideas; for it is well known to you …
— Baruch Spinoza
"Be not astonished at new ideas; for it is well known to you that a thing does no..."
The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest minds of past centuries.
— Rene Descartes
"The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest minds of pa..."
What worries you, masters you.
— John Locke
"What worries you, masters you."
Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains.
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau
"Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains."
Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd.
"Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd."
Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play.
— Immanuel Kant
"Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intell..."
The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand i…
"The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, bec..."
I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.
"I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say i..."
The only defense against the world is a thorough knowledge o…
"The only defense against the world is a thorough knowledge of it."
The world of reality has its limits; the world of imagination is boundless.
"The world of reality has its limits; the world of imagination is boundless."
"Whatever feels, lives; whatever lives, depends on nourishment."
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