Thinkers of the Renaissance
Guy Fawkes
1570 – 1606
quotes
Guy Fawkes, also known as Guido Fawkes while fighting for the Spanish, was a member of a group of provincial English Catholics involved in the failed Gunpowder Plot of 1605. He was born and educated in York; his father died when Fawkes was eight years old, after which his mother married a recusant Catholic.
... to blow you Scotch beggars back to your native mountains.
Baruch Spinoza
1632 – 1677
Philosophyquotes
Baruch (de) Spinoza, also known under his Latinized pen name Benedictus de Spinoza, was a philosopher of Portuguese-Jewish origin, who was born and lived in the Dutch Republic. A forerunner of the Age of Enlightenment, Spinoza significantly influenced modern biblical criticism, 17th-century rationalism, and Dutch intellectual culture, establishing himself as one of the most important and radical philosophers of the early modern period. Influenced by Stoicism, Thomas Hobbes, René Descartes, Ibn Tufayl, and heterodox Christians, Spinoza was a leading philosopher of the Dutch Golden Age.
Thomas Fuller (writer)
1608 – 1661
Literaturequotes
Thomas Fuller was an English churchman and historian. He is now remembered for his writings, particularly his Worthies of England, published in 1662, after his death. He was a prolific author, and one of the first English writers able to live by his pen.
4084. Search not a Wound too deep, lest thou make a new one.
George Herbert
1593 – 1633
Musicquotes
George Herbert was an English poet, orator, and priest of the Church of England. His poetry is associated with the writings of the metaphysical poets, and he is recognised as "one of the foremost British devotional lyricists." He was born in Wales into an artistic and wealthy family and largely raised in England. He received a good education that led to his admission to Trinity College, Cambridge, in 1609.
310. Keep not ill men company, lest you increase the number.
René Descartes
1596 – 1650
Philosophyquotes
French philosopher known for Cogito ergo sum. Father of modern Western philosophy.
Blaise Pascal
1623 – 1662
Mathematicsquotes
Blaise Pascal was a French mathematician, physicist, inventor, philosopher, and Catholic writer.
Thomas Hobbes
1588 – 1679
Philosophyquotes
Thomas Hobbes was an English philosopher and political theorist, best known for his 1651 book Leviathan, in which he expounds an influential formulation of social contract theory. He is considered to be one of the founders of modern political philosophy.
So that every Crime is a sinne; but not every sinne a Crime.
Galileo Galilei
1564 – 1642
Sciencequotes
Italian astronomer, physicist and engineer whose observations confirmed the heliocentric model.
Words from November 10
"... to blow you Scotch beggars back to your native mountains."
Guy Fawkes
1570
"4084. Search not a Wound too deep, lest thou make a new one."
Thomas Fuller (writer)
1608
"4380. That which is one Man’s Meat, is another Man’s Poison."
Thomas Fuller (writer)
1608
"310. Keep not ill men company, lest you increase the number."
George Herbert
1593
"213. Send a wise man on an errand, and say nothing unto him."
George Herbert
1593
"So that every Crime is a sinne; but not every sinne a Crime."
Thomas Hobbes
1588