Seventeenth Century Quotes
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Seventeenth Century Quotes & Sayings
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Until the seventeenth century there was no concept of evidence with which to pose the problem of induction!
— Ian Hacking
I'd found a seventeenth-century map of the rivers of London.
— Ben Aaronovitch
You're so seventeenth century.
— Susan Catalano
A seventeenth-century house tends to be short on frills like hallways and closets; you must improvise.
— John Updike
As the seventeenth-century French philosopher Montaigne once said, "My life has been filled with terrible misfortune, most of which never happened.
— Kristin Neff
Yet despite these advantages, England's empire remained unlaunched until the seventeenth century. The problem is a dog-in-the-night
— Felipe Fernandez-Armesto
Jeanne de Chantal, seventeenth-century founder of the Order of the Visitation, said, No matter what happens, be gentle with yourself.
— Shane Claiborne
In the seventeenth century, in less than forty years, twenty-six lakes were emptied.
— Edmondo De Amicis
No seventeenth-century pedagogue would have publicly advised his disciple, as did Erasmus in his Dialogues, on the choice of a good prostitute.
— Michel Foucault
My taste runs to hourglasses, maps, seventeenth-century typefaces, etymologies, the taste of coffee, and the prose of Robert Louis Stevenson.
— Jorge Luis Borges
Facts, like telescopes and wigs for gentlemen, were a seventeenth century invention.
— Alasdair MacIntyre
The poetry from the eighteenth century was prose; the prose from the seventeenth century was poetry.
— David Hare
What Galileo and Newton were to the seventeenth century, Darwin was to the nineteenth.
— Bertrand Russell