quotes by ersmus

Give light, and the darkness will disappear of itself.

In the kingdom of the blind, the one-eyed man is king.

It is the chiefest point of happiness that a man is willing to be what he is.

A nail is driven out by another nail. Habit is overcome by habit.

War is delightful to those who have had no experience of it.

The desire to write grows with writing.

Your library is your paradise.

Everybody hates a prodigy, detests an old head on young shoulders.

Prevention is better than cure.

The most disadvantageous peace is better than the most just war.

quotes byThomas More

I die the king's faithful servant, but God's first.

The ordinary arts we practice every day at home are of more importance to the soul than their simplicity might suggest.

A little wanton money, which burned out the bottom of his purse.

Whoever loveth me, loveth my hound.

An absolutely new idea is one of the rarest things known to man.

This hath not offended the king.

Why dost thou gaze upon the sky? O that I were yon spangled sphere! Then every star should be an eye, To wander o'er thy beauties here.

books by Giovanni Pico della Mirandola

quotes by petrarch

Five great enemies of peace inhabit with us — avarice, ambition, envy, anger and pride; if these 

were to be banished, we should infallibly enjoy perpetual peace.

To be able to say how much love, is love but little.

Rarely do great beauty and great virtue dwell together.

Books have led some to learning and others to madness.

It is more honorable to be raised to a throne than to be born to one. Fortune bestows the one, merit obtains the other.

A short cut to riches is to subtract from our desires.

Sameness is the mother of disgust, variety the crue.

quotes by francis bacon

A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.

There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion.

Old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read.

In charity there is no excess.

In taking revenge, a man is but even with his enemy; but in passing it over, he is superior.

Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes, and adversity is not without comforts and hopes.

It is impossible to love and to be wise.

Write down the thoughts of the moment. Those that come unsought for are commonly the most valuable.

A prudent question is one-half of wisdom.

Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed.

Francis Bacon-Former Lord Chancellor

Born: January 22, 1561, Strand, London, United Kingdom

Died: April 9, 1626, London, United Kingdom

English philosopher, statesman, scientist, jurist, orator, essayist and author

famous for his promotion of the scientific method. Bacon workded as attorney general and Lord Chancellor of England. He valued  work was philosophical more 

Thomas More-Saint

Born: February 7, 1478, City of London, United Kingdom

Died: July 6, 1535, London, United Kingdom

was a catholic saint

he spend most mid twenties with the london srict Carthusian and alomost became one .

more was lawyer at henry vii's court. he wrote his most famous work utopia published 1516 the book was modeled after plato's republic it decribes land free of prideful greed and violence.

Desiderius Erasmus- Theologian

Born: October 27, 1466, Rotterdam, Netherlands

Died: July 12, 1536, Basel, Switzerland

Christian philosophy, Renaissance humanism

erasmus was a chatolic follower but did like the idea of you can pay your way into heaven and so he wanted to reform the church but people still didn't have their bible and know what gods words really said because it was in one languge. so our friend erasmus translated thr bible into latin and greek so they can the bible. which helped him gain more people who agreed that we shouldn't have to pay our way into heaven but before erasmus was about to reform the church he pasted away.

Giovanni Pico della Mirandola

Born: February 24, 1463, Mirandola, Italy

Died: November 17,1494, Florence, Italy 

Politics, history, religion, magic

giovanni was the first christian scholar to use kabbalistic doctrine to support christian theology. giovanni also became really famous over the book he wrote the oration on the diginty of man 

petrarch

Born: July 20, 1304, Arezzo, Italy

Died: July 19, 1374, Arquà Petrarca, Italy

Scholar, poet

Traveled through Europe 1327-1336
Given the title of Poet Laureate in 1340
 he Founded philology, the systematic and scientific study of all literary and linguistic phenomena
they say Petrarch had a deep understanding of what ancient Latin and Greek literature
he had the characteristic of a Christian 

Humanism

At start of the 14th century, people became less interested in God, heaven, saints, and other religious things and became more interested in about themselves, their surroundings and their lives. This was the beginning of the humanism renaissance. Since the religion became less but not gone people wanted to do more with their life instead of just worshiping god. The culture was greatly improved by how the art and music became more and more common. The education became welcomed for more of the peasants and more of the lower class. This was the humanism era.