Utopia Dissatisfaction Quotes Page 3
(Book.Page) based on the 1989 Cambridge University Press edition
| Quote #7 [F]or I lived [in Utopia] more than five years, and would never have left, if it had not been to make that new world known to others. (1.40) |
We get it, Hythloday. Europe = bad; Utopia = good. Do you think Utopia is just the opposite of Europe? Or are there some overlapping aspects?
| Quote #8 In fact [the Utopians] have not discovered even one of those elaborate rules about restrictions, amplifications and suppositions which our own schoolboys study in the Small Logicals. (2.66) |
If you think Hythloday actually has something positive to say about European education, think again. He's making fun of all these various "philosophical" exercises he (and, obviously, More) think are useless.
| Quote #9 I have undertaken only to describe [Utopian] principles, not to defend them. But of this I am sure, that whatever you think of their ideas, there is not a more excellent people or a more flourishing commonwealth anywhere in the whole world. (2.77) |
Is it us, or is Hythloday sounding a tad defensive here?
