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.
Michel de Montaigne
1533 – 1592
Philosophyquotes
Michel Eyquem, Seigneur de Montaigne, commonly known as just Michel de Montaigne, was one of the most significant philosophers of the French Renaissance. He is known for popularising the essay as a literary genre. His work is noted for its merging of casual anecdotes and autobiography with intellectual insight.
The day of your birth leads you to death as well as to life.
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.
3623. No Resolutions of Repentance hereafter can be sincere.
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.
759. Give not S. Peter so much, to leave Saint Paul nothing.
René Descartes
1596 – 1650
Philosophyquotes
French philosopher known for Cogito ergo sum. Father of modern Western philosophy.
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.
John Wallis
1616 – 1703
Mathematicsquotes
John Wallis was an English clergyman and mathematician, who is given partial credit for the development of infinitesimal calculus.
Words from November 9
"... to blow you Scotch beggars back to your native mountains."
Guy Fawkes
1570
"The day of your birth leads you to death as well as to life."
Michel de Montaigne
1533
"The day of your birth is one day’s advance towards the grave."
Michel de Montaigne
1533
"3623. No Resolutions of Repentance hereafter can be sincere."
Thomas Fuller (writer)
1608
"4493. The Earth produces all Things, and receives all again."
Thomas Fuller (writer)
1608
"759. Give not S. Peter so much, to leave Saint Paul nothing."
George Herbert
1593