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Age of Enlightenment2 quotes
Nothing in progression can rest on its original plan. We may as well think of rocking a grown man in the cradle of an infant. — Edmund Burke · 1777Change is not made without inconvenience, even from worse to better. — Samuel Johnson · 1755American Revolutionary Period2 quotes
Justice is the end of government. It is the end of civil society. It ever has been and ever will be pursued until it be obtained, or until liberty be lost in the pursuit. — James Madison · 1788I must study Politicks and War that my sons may have liberty to study Mathematicks and Philosophy. — John Adams · 1780Classical antiquity2 quotes
The gods did not intimate all things to men straight away, but in time, through seeking, their discoveries improve. — XenophanesTruths kindle light for truths. — Lucretius · 55 BCMiddle Ages1 quote
We are like dwarfs on the shoulders of giants, so that we can see more than they, and things at a greater distance, not by virtue of any sharpness of sight on our part, or any physical distinction, but because we are carried high and raised up by their giant size. — Bernard of Chartres · 1159