Sublime Philosophy/18th Century

Famous quotes containing the words sublime, philosophy and/or century:

    It is the mark of a great man that he puts to flight all ordinary calculations. He is at once sublime and touching, childlike and of the race of giants.
    HonorĂ© De Balzac (1799–1850)

    Even healthy families need outside sources of moral guidance to keep those tensions from imploding—and this means, among other things, a public philosophy of gender equality and concern for child welfare. When instead the larger culture aggrandizes wife beaters, degrades women or nods approvingly at child slappers, the family gets a little more dangerous for everyone, and so, inevitably, does the larger world.
    Barbara Ehrenreich (20th century)

    Wealth should not be seized, but the god-given is much better.
    Hesiod (c. 8th century B.C.)