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"For we see men, in those activities that carry them towards the goal they all share, which is acquisition of glory and riches, proceed differently"
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Machiavelli
The Prince |
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Learn how not to be good, and know when it is necessary to use this knowledge
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Machiavelli
The Prince |
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Love attaches men by ties of obligation, which, since men are wicked, they break whenever their interests are at stake
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Machiavelli
The Prince |
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A ruler need not have all the positive qualities I listed earlier, but he must seem to have them
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Machiavelli
The Prince |
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Everyone will agree that if a ruler could have all the good qualities I have listed and none of the bad ones, then this would be an excellent state of affairs. But one cannot have all the good qualities, nor always act in a praiseworthy fashion, for we do not live in an ideal world.
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Machiavelli
The Prince |
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"For greatness, Mr. Speaker, I think a man may speak it soberly and without bravery, that his kingdom of england, having Scotland united, Ireland reduced, the sea provinces of the Low Countries contracted, and shipping maintained, is one of the greatest monarchies, in forces truly esteemed, that hath been, in the world...Neither is the opinion of Machiavelli to be despised, who scorneth that proverb of state...that monies are the sinews of war; and saith 'There are no true sinews of war, but hte very sinews of arms of valiant men'."
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Francis Bacon
Speech Concerning General Naturalization (of the Scots) |
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"We are much beholden to Machiavelli and others, that write what men do, not what they out to do...as for philosophers, they make imaginary laws for imaginary commonwealths; and their discourses are as the stars, which give little light because they are so high."
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Francis Bacon
Advancement of Learning |
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"Philosophy and the intellectual sciences, on the contrary, stand like statues, worshiped and celebrated, but not moved or advanced. Nay, they sometimes flourish most in the hands of the first author, and afterwards degenerate."
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Francis Bacon
The Great Instauration |
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Moreover, to be of good hope, nor to imagine that this Instuaration of mine is a thing infinite and beyond the power of man, when it is in fact the true end and termination of infinite error; and seeing also that it is by no means forgetful of the conditions of mortality and humanity...and finally that it seeks for the sciences not arrogantly in the little cells of human wit, but with reverence in the greater world"
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Francis Bacon
The Great Instauration |
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"for the end which this science of mine proposes is the invention not of arguments but of art; not of things in accordance with principles, but of principles themselves; not of probably reasons, but of designations and direction for works. And as the intention is different so, accordingly, is the effect; the effect of the one being to overcome an opponent in argument, of the other to command nature in action."
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Francis Bacon
The Plan of the Great Instauration |
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Whereforem seeing that these things do not depend upon myself, at the outset of the work I most humbly pray to God the father... that humans may not interefere with things divine... and give to faith that which is faith's"
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Francis Bacon
The Great Instauration |
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Lastly, I would address one general admonition to all - that they consider what are the true ends of knowledge, and that they seek it not for pleasure of the mind, or for profit... but for the benefit and use of life"
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Francis Bacon
The Great Instauration |
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"Let us consider it certain and firmly established that the soul can do without anything except the world of God and that where the word of God is missing there is not help at all for the soul."
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Martin Luther
On Christian Liberty |
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"therefore the moment you being to have faith you learn that all things in you are altogether blameworthy, sinful, and damnable, as the Apostle says in Romans, "since all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God and none is righteous not one; all have turned side, together thy have gone wrong"
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Martin Luther
On Christian Liberty |
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"Entire scripture of God is divided in two parts: commandments and promises"
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Martin Luther
On Christian Liberty |
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"A Christian is a perfectly free lord of all, subject to none. A Christian is a perfectly dutiful servant of all, subject to all."
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Martin Luther
On Christian Liberity |
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"A Christian has all that he needs in faith and needs no works to justify him... so he is free from the law"
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Martin Luther
On Christian Liberty |
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"Good works do not make a good man, but a good man does good works; evil works do not make a wicked man, but wicked man does evil works."
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Martin Luther
On Christian Liberty |
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"I will apply myself earnestly and unreservedly to this general demolition of my opinions"
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Descartes
Meditations on First Philosophy |
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"I will suppose not a supremely good God, the source of truth, but rather an evil genius, supremely powerful and clever, who has directed his entire effort at deceiving me. I will regard the heavens, the air, the earth, coors, shapes, sounds, and all external things as nothing but the bedeviling hoaxes of my dreams, which which he lays snares for my credulity."
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Descartes
Meditiations on First Philosophy |
