honors fall quotes 1

“A Christian is a perfectly free lord of all, subject to none.
A Christian is a perfectly dutiful servant of all, subject to all.”

On Christian Liberty

“All Christians are truly of the spiritual estate, and there is among them no difference at all but that of office.”

Address to the Nobility of the German Nation

“God has ordained the two governments, the spiritual and the temporal, the one to rule the soul, the other the body.”

On Temporal Authority

“Our wisdom, in so far as it ought to be deemed true and solid wisdom, consists almost entirely of two parts: the knowledge of God and of ourselves.”

Institutes of the Christian Religion

“XVIII. Although it is above all things praiseworthy to greatly serve God our Lord out of pure love, yet we ought much to praise the fear of His Divine Majesty,”

Thinking with the Church

“If anyone says that man is justified by faith alone, let him be anathema.”

Council of Trent

“You shall take care that the Indians are well treated, and that they are not harmed in any way.”

Instructions to Nicolas Ovanda from King Ferdinand and Isabella

“Those whose condition is such that they should obey others, and whose intelligence is so deficient that they are incapable of governing themselves, are by nature slaves.”

Democrates Alter

“All the peoples of the world are human, and no one is naturally a slave.”

Las Casas

“Kings are not onely Gods Lieutenants upon earth, and sit upon Gods throne, but even by God himselfe they are called Gods.”

The Trew Law of Free Moncarchies

“The people of England… do hereby agree to put a period to the present government, and to constitute a new government.”

Agreement of the People

“The first foundation of the authority of kings is the authority of God.”

Political Testament

“I want to be seen here as I am, in my simple, natural, ordinary manner, without strain or artifice.”

To the Reader

“I am myself the matter of my book.”

Intro

“To convert the Savages, not so much knowledge is necessary as goodness and sound virtue.”

Jesuit Relations

“During the time men live without a common Power to keep them all in awe, they are in that condition which is called war.”

Leviathan

“If you wish to know whether your merits and demerits are increasing or decreasing, you must keep a record of them every day.”

Ledger of Merit and Demerit

“In ancient times, all-under-Heaven were considered the master, and the prince was the tenant. The prince spent his whole life working for all-under-Heaven. Now the prince is master, and all-under-Heaven are tenants.”

Huang Zongxi

“The ideal is to be master of the time factor. The next best thing is to anticipate it, and the next best thing after that is to accord with it. The worst thing to do is to go against it.

Wang Fuzhi

“Men being, as has been said, by nature, all free, equal, and independent, no one can be put out of this estate, and subjected to the political power of another, without his own consent.”

Second Treatise of Government

“Man, being the servant and interpreter of Nature, can do and understand so much and so much only as he has observed in fact or in thought of the course of nature: beyond this he neither knows anything nor can do anything.”

Novum Organum

“Our only remaining hope and salvation is to begin the whole labor of the mind again; not leaving it to itself, but directing it perpetually from the very first, and attaining our end as it were by mechanical aid.”

The Advancement of Learning

“Philosophy is written in this grand book—the universe—which stands continually open to our gaze. But the book cannot be understood unless one first learns to comprehend the language and read the letters in which it is composed. It is written in the language of mathematics.”

The Assayer/Letter to Grand Duchess Christina

“I have not been able to discover the cause of those properties of gravity from phenomena, and I frame no hypotheses.

Principia