18th-century Academic Quotes

Étienne Bonnot de Condillac
Philip Shuttleworth
Edward Dorr Griffin

From the ship all things were taken out, so that the clothes which I took with me on my back I only had.

We cannot recollect the ignorance in which we were born.

Étienne Bonnot de Condillac
Étienne Bonnot de Condillac
The book known by the name of the Apocalypse, has seemed to be until now unintelligible, merely because people persisted to see in it a real prediction of the future, which every one has explained after his own fashion, and in which they have always found what they wanted, namely anything but that, what the book contained.

We smile at the ignorance of the savage who cuts down the tree in order to reach its fruit; but the same blunder is made by every person who is over eager and impatient in the pursuit of pleasure.

Philip Shuttleworth
Philip Shuttleworth
To the generous mind
The heaviest debt is that of gratitude,
When 'tis not in our power to repay it.

I see that I have too much confined my thoughts to God, and that I ought to go directly to the Saviour's arms, and that I ought to believe, abominable as my sins have been, if they have once been pardoned, they form no partition between me and the heart of Christ.

Edward Dorr Griffin
Edward Dorr Griffin
SIR JOHN: What ye look at?
CECILIA: A little animal, that round my glove, And up and down to ev'ry finger's tip, Has travell'd merrily, and travels still, Tho' it has wings to fly. What its name is With learned men I know not. Simple folks Call it the Lady-bird.