Quotes Flashcards
Individuals possess the power to make of themselves what they wish
Pico
Upon man, at the moment of his creation, God bestowed seeds pregnant with all possibilities
Pico
Oh unsurpassed generosity of God the Father, oh wondrous and unsurpassed happiness of man to whom it is granted to have all that he chooses; to be all that which he wills to be!
Pico
The acuteness of his senses, the inquiry of his reason, and the light of his intelligence….justify man’s unique right to unbounded admiration
Pico
Man is, with complete justice, to be called a great miracle
Pico
There is nothing more wonderful to be seen than man
Pico
To contemplate beauty is to contemplate God
Ficino
What a piece of work is a man! How noble in reason! How infinite in faculties! In form and in moving, how express and admirable! In action, how like and angel! In apprehension, how like a god! The beauty of the world! The paragon of animals! And yet, to me, what is this quintessence of dust? Man delight not me, nor woman neither..
Hamlet
Get thee to a nunnery, lest ye be a breeder of sinners
Hamlet to Ophelia
I am myself indifferent honest; but I could accuse myself of such things it were better my mother had not born me…
Hamlet to Ophelia
What should such fellows as I do crawling between earth and heaven?
Hamlet
Nay, but to live in the rank sweat of an ensemened bed, stewed in corruption, honeying and making love over the nasty sty.
Hamlet to Gertrude
Education can wipe out all evils
Diderot
We live in an ordered, mathematical universe
Newton
All men are born to perfect freedom
Locke
We can only fulfill our maximum potential in a free society
Locke
I am first a man, and only then a French man
Montesquieu
Reason is supreme
Descartes
We live in an ordered, rational universe, governed by mathematical laws
Newton
All men are essentially equal and have rights by nature
Locke
Reason can solve every problem facing humankind
Descartes
God has given the world to all men in common
Locke
We will have no other goal than the absolute perfection of the human race
Condorcet
The time will come when the sun will shine only on free men who know no other master but their reason
Condorcet
Nature has set no limit to the perfection of human faculties
Condorcet
Whatever was the beginning of this world, the end will be glorious and paradisiacal
Priestly
We will teach the young to know their rights and to be able to exercise them
Condorcet
Man is the product of his environment; change the environment and change the man
Locke
Education can wipe out all evils
Diderot
