Political literatureI cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue, unexercised and unbreathed, that never sallies out and sees her adversary but slinks out of the race, where that immortal garland is to be run for, not without dust and heat.John MiltonAreopagitica · 1644★ 5.3
Political literatureBooks are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a potency of life in them to be as active as that soul was whose progeny they are.John MiltonAreopagitica · 1644★ 3.7
Political literatureWhere there is much desire to learn, there of necessity will be much arguing, much writing, many opinions; for opinion in good men is but knowledge in the making.John MiltonAreopagitica · 1644★ 3.6
Political literatureThough all the winds of doctrine were let loose to play upon the earth, so Truth be in the field, we do injuriously, by licensing and prohibiting, to misdoubt her strength. Let her and Falsehood grapple; who ever knew the Truth put to the worse, in a free and open encounter?John MiltonAreopagitica · 1644★ 3.6
Political literatureHere the great art lies, to discern in what the law is to bid restraint and punishment, and in what things persuasion only is to work.John MiltonAreopagitica · 1644★ 2.1
Political literatureIf we think to regulate printing, thereby to rectify manners, we must regulate all recreations and pastimes, all that is delightful to man... And who shall silence all the airs and madrigals, that whisper softness in chambers?John MiltonAreopagitica · 1644★ 2.0
Philosophical literatureIt is contrary to reason to say that there is a vacuum or space in which there is absolutely nothing.Rene DescartesPrinciples of Philosophy · 1644★ 2.0
Political literatureBehold now this vast city: a city of refuge, the mansion house of liberty.John MiltonAreopagitica · 1644★ 1.3
Political literatureGive me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience, above all liberties.John MiltonAreopagitica · 1644★ 1.2
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