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Age of Enlightenment215 quotes
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. — Thomas Hobbes · 1651And with the guts of the last priest
Let's wring the neck of the last king. — Denis Diderot · 1772I think, therefore I am. — Rene Descartes · 1637Hope springs eternal in the human breast;
Man never is, but always to be blessed. — Alexander Pope · 1733If this is the best of possible worlds, what then are the others? — Voltaire · 1759Moreover, in a system of two bodies mutually acting upon each other, since the differences between their centres and the common centre of gravity of both are reciprocally as the bodies, the relative motions of those bodies, whether of approaching to or of receding from that centre, will be equal junong themselves. Therefore since the changes which happen to motions are equal and directed to contrary parts. — Isaac Newton · 1687All 215 quotes →