1650s · Skopia

Showing 33 quotes from the 1650s

Political literature · Philosophical literature

In such condition there is no place for industry, because the fruit thereof is uncertain... And the life of man solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short.

Leviathan · 1651

★ 9.6

It is always darkest just before the day dawneth.

Thomas Fuller (churchman)

1650

★ 8.8

Political literature · Philosophical literature

Curiosity...is a Lust of the mind.

Leviathan · 1651

★ 8.0

Political literature · Philosophical literature

No arts; no letters; no society; and which is worst of all, continual fear and danger of violent death; and the life of man, solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short.

Leviathan · 1651

★ 7.1

There is in God, some say, A deep but dazzling darkness.

Silex Scintillans · 1655

★ 5.3

Political literature · Philosophical literature

Such truth as opposeth no man's profit nor pleasure is to all men welcome.

Leviathan · 1651

★ 4.6

Things are always at their best in their beginning.

1656

★ 4.6

Religious literature

Familiarity breeds contempt.

Thomas Fuller (churchman)

A Comment on Ruth: And Notes Upon Jonah · 1654

★ 4.5

Political literature · Philosophical literature

Riches, knowledge and honour are but several sorts of power.

Leviathan · 1651

★ 4.0

Political literature · Philosophical literature

I put for a general inclination of all mankind, a perpetual and restless desire of power after power, that ceaseth only in death.

Leviathan · 1651

★ 3.9

Political literature · Philosophical literature

During the time men live without a common power to keep them all in awe, they are in that condition which is called war; and such a war as is of every man against every man.

Leviathan · 1651

★ 3.8

Political literature · Philosophical literature

Religion; which by reason of the different fancies, judgments, and passions of several men, hath grown up into ceremonies so different, that those which are used by one man, are for the most part ridiculous to another.

Leviathan · 1651

★ 3.7

Speech · Political speech

Necessity hath no law.

Oliver Cromwell

1654

★ 3.7

Religious literature · Philosophical literature

The end justifies the means.

Hermann Busenbaum

1650

★ 3.6

Lord of himself, though not of lands; And having nothing, yet hath all.

The Character of a Happy Life · 1651

★ 3.6

We may say of angling, as Dr. Boteler said of strawberries, "Doubtless God could have made a better berry, but doubtless God never did."

The Compleat Angler · 1653

★ 3.6

No man can lose what he never had.

The Compleat Angler · 1653

★ 3.6

The long habit of living indisposeth us for dying.

Sir Thomas Browne

1658

★ 3.6

No man ever repented that he arose from the table sober, healthful, and with his wits about him.

The House of Feasting · 1653

★ 3.5

They cannot commit treason, nor be outlawed, nor excommunicate, for they have no souls.

1658

★ 3.5

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