Ken Loach Quotes

The Enlightenment, the Age of Reason, is seen as the beginning of modern depravity.

While confronting the problems of the present, I often find myself thinking back to the world of books as it was experienced by the Founding Fathers and the philosophers of the Enlightenment.

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

Whatever else we may say of our own age, for good or evil, nobody is likely to call it an Age of Reason.

For even the ordinary well-read person, the French Enlightenment is largely restricted to the three big-name philosophes: Diderot, Rousseau, Voltaire.

It is at best insufficient and at worst inaccurate to settle on a definition of the Enlightenment, for the obvious reason that there was not just one.

Enlightenment, don't know what it is. It's up to you, the way you think.

Look at the 18th century. There was a lot more freedom going on.

I think it may not be a coincidence that the rise of printing and book publication and literacy and the phenomenon of best sellers all preceded the humanitarian reforms of the Enlightenment.

Three hundred years ago, during the Age of Enlightenment, the coffee house became the center of innovation.

We shall be inclined to pronounce the voyage that led to the way to this New World as the most epoch-making event of all that have occurred since the birth of Christ.

I think the Enlightenment is leading us into a dark hole, really.

Almost everything that distinguishes the modern world from earlier centuries is attributable to science, which achieved its most spectacular triumphs in the seventeenth century.

I am a person of the 18th century.

One of the Age of Enlightenment's most hypnotic images is Ledoux's rendering of his neoclassical theater of 1775 - 1784 in Besancon, surreally reflected in the colossal eye of an unidentified cosmic being.

The theories of the major philosophers of the 18th century secular enlightenment were biblical and theological in spite of themselves.

This is the dawning of the age of Aquarius.

Then when I reached college I realized that many people had thought about the problem during the 18th and 19th centuries and so I studied those methods.

By any reasonable measure of achievement, the faith of the Enlightenment thinkers in science was justified.

Edinburgh, Scotland went from a narrow, theocratic, awful society to the intellectuality and free thinking Great Enlightenment in only 100 years.

The Enlightenment attacked religion - Christianity, mainly - for two reasons: that it was a set of ideological delusions, and that it was a system of institutional oppression, with immense powers of persecution and intolerance.

The ongoing argument over whether the Enlightenment is a good thing is hardly a new facet of American political life.

The 'Enlightenment', which discovered the liberties, also invented the disciplines.

This then is the age of reason.

We are living in a state of constant scientific revolution. There is not a single area that you can name that is now seen as it was seen a hundred years ago. Nothing is left of the world view of one hundred years ago.