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Wonder is the feeling of a philosopher, and philosophy begins in wonder. — Socrates · 400 BC The unexamined life is not worth living. — Socrates · 399 BC There are many wonderful things, and nothing is more wonderful than man. — Sophocles · 441 BC Man is the measure of all things. — Protagoras · 420 BC Know thyself. — Thales All men by nature desire to know. — Aristotle · 322 BC All 566 quotes →

The Renaissance507 quotes

This above all: to thine own self be true, And it must follow, as the night the day, Thou canst not then be false to any man. — William Shakespeare · 1616 In the country of the blind the one-eyed man is king. — Erasmus · 1536 To be or not to be—that is the question: Whether ’tis nobler in the mind to suffer The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, Or to take arms against a sea of troubles And, by opposing, end them. To die, to sleep— No more—and by a sleep to say we end The heartache and the thousand natural shocks That flesh is heir to—’tis a consummation Devoutly to be wished. To die, to sleep— To sleep, perchance to dream. Ay, there’s the rub, For in that sleep of death what dreams may come, When we have shuffled off this mortal coil, Must give us pause. — William Shakespeare · 1616 Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate. Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May, And summer's lease hath all too short a date. — William Shakespeare · 1609 God is not willing to do everything, and thus take away our free will and that share of glory which belongs to us. — Niccolo Machiavelli · 1532 Long is the way And hard, that out of Hell leads up to Light. — John Milton · 1667 All 507 quotes →

Age of Enlightenment214 quotes

In such condition there is no place for industry, because the fruit thereof is uncertain... And the life of man solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short. — Thomas Hobbes · 1651 And with the guts of the last priest Let's wring the neck of the last king. — Denis Diderot · 1772 I think, therefore I am. — Rene Descartes · 1637 Hope springs eternal in the human breast; Man never is, but always to be blessed. — Alexander Pope · 1733 If this is the best of possible worlds, what then are the others? — Voltaire · 1759 Moreover, in a system of two bodies mutually acting upon each other, since the differences between their centres and the common centre of gravity of both are reciprocally as the bodies, the relative motions of those bodies, whether of approaching to or of receding from that centre, will be equal junong themselves. Therefore since the changes which happen to motions are equal and directed to contrary parts. — Isaac Newton · 1687 All 214 quotes →

Middle Ages78 quotes

Abandon all hope, ye who enter here. — Dante Alighieri · 1321 Consider your origin; you were not born to live like brutes, but to follow virtue and knowledge. — Dante Alighieri · 1321 Therefore it is necessary to arrive at a prime mover, put in motion by no other; and this everyone understands to be God. — St. Thomas Aquinas · 1265 When I had journeyed half of our life's way, I found myself within a shadowed forest, for I had lost the path that does not stray. — Dante Alighieri · 1321 In that part of the book of my memory, before which very little is written, there is a heading that reads "Here begins a new life". — Dante Alighieri · 1294 O happy race of mortals, if your hearts are ruled, as is the universe, by Love! — Boethius · 523 All 78 quotes →

New Testament Era61 quotes

For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved. — Apostle Paul · 56 If God be for us, who can be against us? — Apostle Paul · 56 But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us. — Apostle Paul · 56 Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres. Love never fails. — Apostle Paul · 55 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control; against such things there is no law. — Apostle Paul · 50 Owe no man any thing, but to love one another. — Apostle Paul · 56 All 61 quotes →

Spanish Golden Age15 quotes

I was so free with him as not to mince the matter. — Miguel de Cervantes · 1605 Can we ever have too much of a good thing? — Miguel de Cervantes · 1605 You are a king by your own fireside, as much as any monarch in his throne. — Miguel de Cervantes · 1605 That's the nature of women... Not to love when we love them, and to love when we love them not. — Miguel de Cervantes · 1605 He's a muddle-headed fool, with frequent lucid intervals. — Miguel de Cervantes · 1615 Blessed be he that invented sleep. — Miguel de Cervantes · 1615 All 15 quotes →

Protestant Reformation9 quotes

Superstition, idolatry, and hypocrisy have ample wages, but truth goes a-begging. — Martin Luther · 1569 Reason is the greatest enemy that faith has: it never comes to the aid of spiritual things, but-more frequently than not-struggles against the divine Word, treating with contempt all that emanates from God. — Martin Luther · 1569 A mighty fortress is our God, A bulwark never failing. Our helper He amid the flood Of mortal ills prevailing. — Martin Luther · 1529 What can only be taught by the rod and with blows will not lead to much good; they will not remain pious any longer than the rod is behind them. — Martin Luther · 1529 The mad mob does not ask how it could be better, only that it be different. And when it then becomes worse, it must change again. Thus they get bees for flies, and at last hornets for bees. — Martin Luther · 1526 A mighty fortress is our God, a bulwark never failing. — Martin Luther · 1529 All 9 quotes →

American Revolutionary Period8 quotes

If there must be trouble, let it be in my day, that my child may have peace. — Thomas Paine · 1776 Parties must ever exist in a free country. — Edmund Burke · 1775 Every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter. — Edmund Burke · 1775 We have it in our power to begin the world over again. — Thomas Paine · 1776 Monarchy and succession have laid... The world in blood and ashes. — Thomas Paine · 1776 Wisdom is not the purchase of a day. — Thomas Paine · 1776 All 8 quotes →

Age of Exploration5 quotes

I have always read that the world, both land and water, was spherical, as the authority and researches of Ptolemy and all the others who have written this subject demonstrate and prove, as do the eclipses of the moon and other experiments that are made from east to west, and the elevation of the North Star from north to south. — Christopher Columbus · 1498 At two hours after midnight appeared the land, at a distance of two leagues. They handed all sails and set the treo, which is the mainsail without bonnets, and lay-to waiting for daylight Friday, when they arrived at an island of the Bahamas that was called in the Indians' tongue Guanahaní. — Christopher Columbus · 1492 And they know neither sect nor idolatry, with the exception that all believe that the source of all power and goodness is in the sky, and they believe very firmly that I, with these ships and people, came from the sky, and in this belief they everywhere received me, after they had overcome their fear. — Christopher Columbus · 1493 Those new regions which we found and explored with the fleet... We may rightly call a New World... A continent more densely peopled and abounding in animals other than our Europe or Asia or Africa; and, in addition, a climate milder than in any other region known to us. — Amerigo Vespucci · 1503 There must be a beginning of any great matter, but the continuing unto the end until it be thoroughly finished yields the true glory. — Francis Drake · 1587

Colonial America3 quotes

We must consider that we shall be as a city upon a hill. The eyes of all people are on us. So that if we shall deal falsely with our God in this work we have undertaken, and so cause him to withdraw His present help from us, we shall be made a story and a byword through the world. — John Winthrop · 1630 We must bear one another's burdens, we must not look only on our own things but also on the things of our brethren. — John Winthrop · 1630 He who says there is no such thing as an honest man, you may be sure is himself a knave. — George Berkeley · 1750

Byzantine Period1 quote

Justice is the constant and perpetual wish to render to every one his due. — Justinian I · 533

Early Christianity1 quote

When you are at Rome live in the Roman style: when you are elsewhere live as they live elsewhere. — St. Ambrose · 397

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