Quotes

Question 0

Individuals possess the power to make of themselves what they wish

Answer 0

Pico

Question 1

Upon man, at the moment of his creation, God bestowed seeds pregnant with all possibilities

Answer 1

Pico

Question 2

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!

Answer 2

Pico

Question 3

The acuteness of his senses, the inquiry of his reason, and the light of his intelligence….justify man’s unique right to unbounded admiration

Answer 3

Pico

Question 4

Man is, with complete justice, to be called a great miracle

Answer 4

Pico

Question 5

There is nothing more wonderful to be seen than man

Answer 5

Pico

Question 6

To contemplate beauty is to contemplate God

Answer 6

Ficino

Question 7

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..

Answer 7

Hamlet

Question 8

Get thee to a nunnery, lest ye be a breeder of sinners

Answer 8

Hamlet to Ophelia

Question 9

I am myself indifferent honest; but I could accuse myself of such things it were better my mother had not born me…

Answer 9

Hamlet to Ophelia

Question 10

What should such fellows as I do crawling between earth and heaven?

Answer 10

Hamlet

Question 11

Nay, but to live in the rank sweat of an ensemened bed, stewed in corruption, honeying and making love over the nasty sty.

Answer 11

Hamlet to Gertrude

Question 12

Education can wipe out all evils

Answer 12

Diderot

Question 13

We live in an ordered, mathematical universe

Answer 13

Newton

Question 14

All men are born to perfect freedom

Answer 14

Locke

Question 15

We can only fulfill our maximum potential in a free society

Answer 15

Locke

Question 16

I am first a man, and only then a French man

Answer 16

Montesquieu

Question 17

Reason is supreme

Answer 17

Descartes

Question 18

We live in an ordered, rational universe, governed by mathematical laws

Answer 18

Newton

Question 19

All men are essentially equal and have rights by nature

Answer 19

Locke

Question 20

Reason can solve every problem facing humankind

Answer 20

Descartes

Question 21

God has given the world to all men in common

Answer 21

Locke

Question 22

We will have no other goal than the absolute perfection of the human race

Answer 22

Condorcet

Question 23

The time will come when the sun will shine only on free men who know no other master but their reason

Answer 23

Condorcet

Question 24

Nature has set no limit to the perfection of human faculties

Answer 24

Condorcet

Question 25

Whatever was the beginning of this world, the end will be glorious and paradisiacal

Answer 25

Priestly

Question 26

We will teach the young to know their rights and to be able to exercise them

Answer 26

Condorcet

Question 27

Man is the product of his environment; change the environment and change the man

Answer 27

Locke

Question 28

Education can wipe out all evils

Answer 28

Diderot