Mary Astell Quotes

• The design of Rhetoric is to remove those Prejudices that lie in the way of Truth, to Reduce the Passions to the Government of Reasons; to place our Subject in a Right Light, and excite our Hearers to a due consideration of it.

  Mary Astell

• That which has not a real excellency and value in it self, entertains no longer than the giddy Humour which recommended it to us holds.

  Mary Astell

• That Man indeed can never be good at heart, who is full of himself and his own Endowments.

  Mary Astell

• Nor can the Apostle mean that Eve only sinned; or that she only was Deceived, for if Adam sinned willfully and knowingly, he became the greater Transgressor.

  Mary Astell

• None of us whether Men or Women but have so good an Opinion of our own Conduct as to believe we are fit, if not to direct others, at least to govern our selves.

  Mary Astell

• He who will be just, must be forc’d to acknowledge, that neither S*x are always in the right.

  Mary Astell

• God is His own Design and End, and that there is no other Worthy of Him.

  Mary Astell

• Every Body has so good an Opinion of their own Understanding as to think their own way the best.

  Mary Astell

• Certain I am, that Christian Religion does no where allow Rebellion.

  Mary Astell

  Tags in Rebellion

• For certainly there cannot be a higher pleasure than to think that we love and are beloved by the most amiable and best Being.

  Mary Astell

  Tags in Amiable

• He who will be just, must be forc’d to acknowledge, that neither S*x are always in the right.

  Mary Astell

  Tags in Acknowledge

• Hitherto I have courted Truth with a kind of Romantick Passion, in spite of all Difficulties and Discouragements: for knowledge is thought so unnecessary an Accomplishment for a Woman, that few will give themselves the Trouble to assist us in the Attainment of it.

  Mary Astell

  Tags in Discouragements, Hitherto, Attainment

• How can a Man respect his Wife when he has a contemptible Opinion of her and her S*x?

  Mary Astell

  Tags in Contemptible

• It is not the Head but the Heart that is the Seat of Atheism.

  Mary Astell

  Tags in Atheism

Mary Astell (54)

Birth:	12th November, 1666
Death:	11th May, 1731
Nationality:	British
Profession:	Writer

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