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.
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.
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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.
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...
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The poetry from the eighteenth century was prose; the prose from the seventeenth century was poetry.
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.
I'm a creature of the eighteenth century at heart: The Enlightenment and the search for happiness suit me.
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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.
