Top 11 Quotes & Sayings by Arthur Young

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Last updated on November 8, 2024.

Arthur Young was an English agriculturist. Not himself successful as a farmer, he built on connections and activities as a publicist a substantial reputation as an expert on agricultural improvement. After the French Revolution of 1789, his views on its politics carried weight as an informed observer, and he became an important opponent of British reformers. Young is considered a major English writer on agriculture, although he is best known as a social and political observer. Also read widely were his Tour in Ireland (1780) and Travels in France (1792).

English - Writer | September 11, 1741 - April 12, 1820

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The purpose creates the machine.

Arthur Young

The tendency of philosophers who know nothing of machinery is to talk of man as a mere mechanism, intending by this to imply that he is without purpose. This shows a lack of understanding of machines as well as of man.

Arthur Young

Science already contained all that was necessary, if you just brought it out.

Arthur Young

God sleeps in the minerals, awakens in plants, walks in animals, and thinks in man.

Arthur Young

The spirit or life spark which animates this manifestation could be called God.

Arthur Young

The self in a toroidal Universe can be both separate and connected with everything else.

Arthur Young

Give a man secure possession of a bleak rock, and he will turn it into a garden; give him nine years' lease of a garden, and he will convert it into a desert.

Arthur Young

Everyone but an idiot knows that the lower classes must be kept poor, or they will never be industrious.

Arthur Young

The magic of property turns sand to gold.

Arthur Young

There is a great difference between a good physician and a bad one; yet very little between a good one and none at all.

Arthur Young

Will posterity believe that, while the Press has swarmed with inflammatory productions that tend to prove the blessing of theoretical confusion and speculative licentiousness, not one writer of talent has been employed to refute and confound the fashionable doctrines, nor the least care taken to disseminate works of another complexion.

Arthur Young

Top 11 Quotes & Sayings by Arthur Young

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