Quotes/Names Flashcards
“We must make a great difference between God’s Word and the word of man. A man’s word is a little sound, that flies into the air, and soon vanishes;”
Martin Luther
“From this arises the question whether it is better to be loved rather than feared, or feared rather than loved…”
Niccolò Machiavelli
“To know the mighty works of God, to comprehend His wisdom and majesty and power, to appreciate, in degree, the wonderful workings of His laws…”
Nicolaus Copernicus
“I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with senses, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use and by some other means to give us knowledge which we can attain by them.”
Galileo Galilei
“I do not know what i may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the sea-shore…”
Isaac Newton
“The state of monarchy is the supremest thing upon earth; for kings are not only God’s lieutenants upon earth, and sit upon God’s throne, but even by God himself are called gods…”
King James I
“The office of the sovereign, be it a monarch or an assembly, consisteth in the end for which he was trusted with the sovereign power…”
Thomas Hobbes
“Thus out of small beginnings greater things been produced by His hand that made all things of nothing, and gives being to all things that are…”
William Bradford
“Death is a friend of ours; and he that is not ready to entertain him is not at home.”
Sir Francis Bacon
“In order to seek truth, it is necessary once in the course of our life, to doubt, as far as possible, of all things.”
René Descartes
