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Eighteenth Century Quotes

A pivotal era in thought and industry

Some quotes credit eighteenth-century writers with major triumphs of thought, even if their achievements weren't always in pure literature.

Towards the end of the eighteenth century the industrial-financial revolution began.

Quotes by Ralph Adams Cram

In pure literature, the writers of the eighteenth century achieved, indeed, many triumphs; but their great, their peculiar, triumphs were in the domain of thought.

Quotes by Lytton Strachey

The eighteenth century discovery that, in an institutional framework that facilitates voluntary exchanges among individuals, this process generates results that might be evaluated positively, produced 'economics,' as an independent academic discipline or science.

Quotes by James M. Buchanan

Pure phenomenology claims to be the science of pure phenomena. This concept of the phenomenon, which was developed under various names as early as the eighteenth century without being clarified, is what we shall have to deal with first of...

Quotes by Edmund Husserl

Began Quotes

The poetry from the eighteenth century was prose; the prose from the seventeenth century was poetry.

Quotes by David Hare

In the last quarter of the eighteenth century bourgeois Europe needed to emancipate itself from that combination of feudalism and commercial capitalism which we know as mercantilism.

Quotes by C. L. R. James

I'm a creature of the eighteenth century at heart: The Enlightenment and the search for happiness suit me.

Quotes by Brigitte Macron

Frequently Asked Questions

What achievements does the eighteenth century get credit for in these quotes?
Major triumphs of thought, even beyond pure literature, are credited to eighteenth-century writers.
Does an economic idea trace back to this century?
Yes, one quote references an eighteenth-century discovery about voluntary exchange within a supportive institutional framework.
What industrial event is tied to the century's end?
One quote states that the industrial-financial revolution began taking shape toward the century's close.
Is philosophy discussed alongside history here?
Yes, one quote traces the concept of phenomena in phenomenology back to ideas developed as early as this century.
What overall picture do these quotes paint of the era?
One of a genuinely transitional period, spanning literature, economics, industry, and early philosophical thought.

Others trace the period's economic ideas, including early theories about voluntary exchange, and note that the industrial-financial revolution began taking shape near the century's end.