1690s · Skopia

Showing 37 quotes from the 1690s

1697

★ 8.8

Treatise · Political literature

Where-ever Law ends, Tyranny begins.

John Locke

Two Treatises of Government · 1690

★ 7.2

Poem

Look round the habitable world! how few Know their own good; or knowing it, pursue.

John Dryden

Satires of Juvenal · 1693

★ 7.0

Philosophical literature

It is one thing, to show a man that he is in an error; and another, to put him in possession of truth.

John Locke

An Essay Concerning Human Understanding · 1690

★ 5.5

Treatise · Political literature

The end of law is not to abolish or restrain but to preserve and enlarge freedom.

John Locke

Second Treatise of Civil Government · 1690

★ 5.5

Travel writing

The months and days are the travelers of eternity. The years that come and go are also voyagers... I too for years past have been stirred by the sight of a solitary cloud drifting with the wind to ceaseless thoughts of roaming.

Matsuo Basho

1694

★ 5.3

Philosophical literature

Let us then suppose the mind to be, as we say, white paper, void of all characters, without any ideas; how comes it to be furnished?... Whence has it all the materials of reason and knowledge? To this I answer, in one word, from experience.

John Locke

An Essay Concerning Human Understanding · 1690

★ 4.5

Religious literature

That there is a Devil, is a Thing Doubted by none but such as are under the Influence of the Devil. For any to Deny the Being of a Devil must be from an Ignorance or Profaneness, worse than diabolical.

Cotton Mather

The Wonders of the Invisible World · 1693

★ 4.4

Essay · Philosophical literature

Nature never makes excellent things for mean or no uses.

John Locke

An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding · 1690

★ 3.9

Essay · Philosophical literature

Crooked things may be as stiff and unflexible as straight; and men may be as positive and peremptory in error as in truth.

John Locke

An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding · 1690

★ 3.8

Treatise · Political literature

The only way whereby any one divests himself of his natural liberty and puts on the bonds of civil society is by agreeing with other men to join and unite into a community.

John Locke

Two Treatises of Government · 1690

★ 3.7

Treatise · Political literature

Man being...by nature all free, equal, and independent, no one can be put out of this estate and subjected to the political power of another without his own consent.

John Locke

Two Treatises of Government · 1690

★ 3.7

Treatise · Political literature

The great and chief end, therefore, of men's uniting into commonwealths and putting themselves under government is the preservation of their property.

John Locke

Two Treatises of Government · 1690

★ 3.7

Treatise · Political literature · Philosophical literature

Virtue is harder to be got, than a Knowledge of the World; and, if lost in a young Man, is seldom recover'd.

John Locke

Some Thoughts Concerning Education · 1693

★ 3.7

Treatise · Political literature · Philosophical literature

He that will have his Son have a Respect for him and his Orders, must himself have a great Reverence for his Son.

John Locke

Some Thoughts Concerning Education · 1693

★ 3.7

Play · Comedy (play)

No time like the present.

Delarivier Manley

1696

★ 3.7

Play

She floats, she hesitates; in a word, she's a woman.

Jean Racine

1691

★ 3.6

Treatise · Political literature · Philosophical literature

Good and Evil, Reward and Punishment, are the only Motives to a rational Creature: These are the Spur and Reins whereby all Mankind are set on Work, and guided.

John Locke

Some Thoughts Concerning Education · 1693

★ 3.6

Play · Comedy (play)

Courtship to marriage, as a very witty prologue to a very dull play.

William Congreve

1693

★ 3.6

Poem

Music, the greatest good that mortals know, And all of heaven we have below.

Joseph Addison

1694

★ 3.5

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