| Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested. - Francis Bacon | Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper. - Francis Bacon |
| Measure what is measurable, and make measurable what is not so. - Galileo Galillei | I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed use with sense, reason and intellect has intended us to forgo their use. - Galileo Gallilei |
| Cogito ergo sum. (I think; therefore I am.) - Rene Descartes | I am accustomed to sleep and in my dreams to imagine the same things that lunatics imagine when awake. - Rene Descartes |
| Every man has a property in his own person. This nobody has a right to, but himself. - John Locke | The reason why men enter into society is the preservation of their property. - John Locke |
| To every action there is always opposed an equal reaction. - Isaac Newton | If I have seen further than others, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants. - Isaac Newton |
| Truth springs from argument amongst friends. - David Hume | A wise man proportions his belief to the evidence. - David Hume |
| Man is born free and everywhere he is in chains. - Jean-Jacques Rousseau | The strongest is never strong enough to be always the master, unless he transforms strength into right, and obedience into duty. - Jean-Jacques Rousseau |
| All our knowledge begins with the senses, proceeds then to the understanding, and ends with reason. There is nothing higher than reason. - Immanuel Kant | He who is cruel to animals becomes hard also in his dealings with men. We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals. - Immanuel Kant |
| No arts; no letters; no society; and which is worst of all, continual fear and danger of violent death; and the life of man, solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short. - Thomas Hobbes | The condition of man... is a condition of war of everyone against everyone. - Thomas Hobbes |
| Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities. - Voltaire | Our wretched species is so made that those who walk on the well-trodden path always throw stones at those who are showing a new road. - Voltaire |
| If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him. - Voltaire | We know the truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart. - Blaise Pascal |
| The least movement is of importance to all nature. The entire ocean is affected by a pebble. - Blaise Pascal |
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