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<![CDATA[CJ added 'A Worldly Art: The Dutch Republic, 1585-1718']]>
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A Worldly Art: The Dutch Republic, 1585-1718 (Paperback)
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"In Calvinist churches the most important piece of furniture was the pulpit, from which preachers read and preached to the congregation." 48
"Rembrandt and his followers specialized in biblical scenes that cast great events in terms of recognizable human emotion, thereby enhancing their didactic value to contemporaries." 48
"By conflating separate biblical events, Rembrandt also demonstrated an advantage of pictures: in one scene they can visualize what must be said sequentially in words." 51
"Tragic literature represented people as better and larger than life, speaking with uncommon eloquence and experiencing the deepest emotions. Comedy, representing people as they are and speak, in all their follies and foibles, was considered a lesser task." 63
"Like comedies, comic images in theory should depict people as they are, or even as worse than they are." 81
"While pictures of windmills and sailing cars, frozen canals and ice boats speak of Dutch ingenuity with water and wind, a voluminous genre of cow paintings records a primary use of Dutch land." 107
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<![CDATA[CJ added 'The Second Treatise of Government & A Letter Concerning Toleration']]>
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The Second Treatise of Government & A Letter Concerning Toleration (Paperback)
byJohn Locke
"Political power, then, I take to be a right of making laws with penalty of death..." 2
"The state of nature has a law of nature to govern it, which obliges every one; and reason, which is that law, teaches all mankind who will but consult it, that, being all equal and independent, no one ought to harm another in his life, health, liberty, or possessions." 3
"Nothing was made by God for man to spoil or destroy." 14
"For in all the states of created beings capable of laws, where there is no law, there is no freedom." 25
"The reigns of good princes have always been most dangerous to the liberties of their people" 76-77
"Wherever law ends tyranny begins" 92
"No peace and security, no, not even so much as a common friendship, can ever be established or preserved amongst men so long as this opinion prevails, that dominion is founded in grace and that religion is to be propagated by force of arms." 126
"Nay, God himself will not save man against their wills." 129
"No way whatsoever that I shall walk in against the dictates of my conscience will ever bring me to the mansions of the blessed." 131
"Faith only, and inward sincerity, are the things that procure acceptance with God." 131
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<![CDATA[CJ added 'An Essay Concerning Human Understanding']]>
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to: An Essay Concerning Human Understanding (Paperback)byJohn Locke
"I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts." I.iii.3.
"It is therefore little less than a contradiction, to suppose, that whole nations of men should both in their professions, and practice unanimously and universally give the lie to what, by the most invincible evidence, every one of them knew to be true, right, and good." I.iii.11
"If it shall be demanded then, when a man begins to have any ideas? I think, the true answer is, when he first has any sensation." II.i.23.
"the ideas of primary qualities of bodies,are resemblances of them, and their patterns do really exist in the bodies themselves; but the ideas, produced in usbythesesecondary qualities, have no resemblance of them at all. There is nothing like our ideas, existing in the bodies themselves." II.viii.15.
"Things then are good or evil, only in reference to pleasure or pain." II.xx.2.
"So that liberty is not anideabelonging to volition, or preferring; but to the person having the power of doing, or forbearing to do, according as the mind shall choose or direct." II.xxi.10.
"Concerning a man's liberty there yet therefore is raised this farther question, whether a man be free to will; which, I think, is what is meant, when it is disputed, whether the will be free." II.xxi.22.
"a man is not at liberty to will, or not to will, because he cannot forbear willing" II.xxi.24.
"The use then of words, is to be sensible marks of ideas; and the ideas they stand for, are their proper and immediate signification." III.ii.1.
"Knowledge then seems to me to be nothing but the perception of the connection and agreement, or disagreement and repugnancy of any of our ideas." IV.i.2.
"Truth then seems to me, in the proper import of the word, to signify nothing but the joining or separating of signs, as the signified by them, do agree or disagree one with another." IV.v.2.
"In every act of sensation, reasoning or thinking, we are conscious to ourselves of our own being; and, in this matter, come not short of the highest degree of certainty." IV.ix.3.
“One cannot be a good conversationalist if one lacks a sense of humor.” 3
"One can please people by flattery, but flattery is not conversation." 7
"Sharing puts a damper on conversation. Instead of conversation we have confession." 27
"Rescuing conversation may be an impossible task in a culture that admires both angry self-expression and nonjudgmental 'supportive' assent." 28
"It is the folly of too many to mistake the echo of a London coffee-house for the voice of the kingdom." J. Swift, 100.
"The pipe-smoker takes too long to say anything; he is often solemn and self-important; and the smell of his pipe keeps away women." 172
"In short, gravity is a way of sounding profound without being profound." 198
"Your consciousness is false, so I have no interest in having a conversation with you." 245
"A good-humored rapper is an oxymoron." 261
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