“The scene should be gently open'd”

Sec. 94
Some Thoughts Concerning Education (1693)
Context: The scene should be gently open'd, and his entrance made step by step, and the dangers pointed out that attend him from several degrees, tempers, designs, and clubs of men. He should be prepared to be shocked by some, and caress'd by others; warned who are like to oppose, who to mislead, who to undermine him, and who to serve him. He should be instructed how to know and distinguish them; where he should let them see, and when dissemble the knowledge of them and their aims and workings.

Adopted from Wikiquote. Last update March 22, 2022. History

Help us to complete the source, original and additional information

Do you have more details about the quote "The scene should be gently open'd" by John Locke?
John Locke photo
John Locke 144
English philosopher and physician 1632–1704

Related quotes

Lewis Carroll photo

“Be sure the safest rule is that we should not dare to live in any scene in which we dare not die.”

Preface
Sylvie and Bruno (1889)
Context: I believe this thought, of the possibility of death — if calmly realised, and steadily faced would be one of the best possible tests as to our going to any scene of amusement being right or wrong. If the thought of sudden death acquires, for you, a special horror when imagined as happening in a theatre, then be very sure the theatre is harmful for you, however harmless it may be for others; and that you are incurring a deadly peril in going. Be sure the safest rule is that we should not dare to live in any scene in which we dare not die.
But, once realise what the true object is in life — that it is not pleasure, not knowledge, not even fame itself, 'that last infirmity of noble minds' — but that it is the development of character, the rising to a higher, nobler, purer standard, the building-up of the perfect Man — and then, so long as we feel that this is going on, and will (we trust) go on for evermore, death has for us no terror; it is not a shadow, but a light; not an end, but a beginning!

William Shakespeare photo
David Mamet photo

“Every scene should be able to answer three questions: "Who wants what from whom? What happens if they don't get it? Why now?”

David Mamet (1947) American playwright, essayist, screenwriter, and film director

Source: Bambi vs. Godzilla: On the Nature, Purpose, and Practice of the Movie Business

Jack Kerouac photo
John Cowper Powys photo
William Shakespeare photo
Percy Bysshe Shelley photo
Waheeda Rehman photo
Alessandro Piccolomini photo

“Act I., Scene I. — (Vicenzo).”

Alessandro Piccolomini (1508–1579) Italian writer and philosopher

Il mondo va invecchiando e peggiorando di mano in mano.
Translation: The world grows older and grows worse from generation to generation.
Translation reported in Harbottle's Dictionary of quotations French and Italian (1904), p. 317.
L’Alessandro (1544)

Related topics