When [our judgments] are flawed, it is always because of their relationship with previous judgments.
1805
[We act] in the conviction that the affection [a person] has for us will encourage them to take on the task willingly.
1498
[This] has, moreover, an unpleasant side, as do all things that are too natural.
1926
It is to make the disciple flourish before the master was born.
45 BC
Head of Saint John the Evangelist
1818
To judge is nothing other than to distinguish or to discern; imagination and judgment are commonly included under the name of mind [...].
1772
Why be surprised [...] if the divinity judges it more advantageous for me to leave life at this very moment?
4th century BC
It is a common notion to every man who uses his reason rather than his senses, that nothing can be annihilated by the ordinary forces of nature.
1674-1675
Fate may well separate us, but not disunite us.
1761
Limestone head of a girl
3rd century BCE
Saying and doing are two different things; one must consider the sermon and the preacher separately.
1580
When you realize you are about to be defeated, you can create a diversion, i.e., start talking about something completely different, as if it had something to do with the debate.
1830-1831
He feigns not to understand, or in some other instances, he does not understand.
1741-1784
Few people have a mind deep enough to reconcile so many truths, and to strip them of the errors with which they are mixed.
1746
Madonna and Child with Saints Jerome and Francis
1495
Our passions cannot be directly aroused or removed by the action of our will, but they can be indirectly, by the representation of things that are usually joined with the passions we wish to have.
1649
[Artistic thought is] an organic growth [...] in which what is new does not destroy what is old, but only expands it.
1896
The republic believes its throne is well worth asking for: it sends no embassy.
1753-1754
If to have liberty it is necessary only to desire it, if only a simple act of will is needed, will there be any nation in the world that still deems it too expensive [...]?
c. 1552-1553
Portrait of a Man in a Fur-Trimmed Coat
1535
[These measures] accustomed the people to think that it was up to the government to provide them with cheap bread, whatever the cost, whether in money or in injustice.
1776
A married philosopher belongs in comedy, that is my thesis.
1887
Political, administrative, and judicial functions are becoming more and more specialized. The same is true of artistic and scientific functions.
1893
It would be necessary for men to suddenly abandon their imaginations, as they have abandoned ruffs, cannons, and other old fashions.
17th century
Saints Michael and Francis
ca. 1505–9
The family is a school of despotism in which the virtues of despotism, but also its vices, are lavishly nourished.
1869
The so-called revolutionary press thus revealed its secret. It signed its own death warrant.
1850
'Where' (Ubi) is the circumscription of a body arising from the circumscription of place.
c. 1270
Human life [...] owes almost everything [to the mechanical arts]. However, it is from the same source that the instruments of vice and even the instruments of death are derived.
1620
Man in a Turban
1632
For an idea to be unique, it is sufficient that it be considered as a single image, although it may be composed of the greatest number of particular Ideas.
1689
Justice is essentially non-acting. It must be either transcendent or suffering.
1947
When one trembles at the idea of a crime one does not even believe possible, one must still fear it.
1st century AD
Critical philosophy [...] does not begin by trying to build or overturn systems [...]. It begins, on the contrary, with the examination of the human reason's faculty of knowing.
1796
Portrait of a Dwarf
1525
Authority [...] was shared with others, while the glory remained his own, even when he had colleagues. It was [...] the effect of his moderation [...] and the fruit of his prudence.
100-120 AD
If it has occurred several times under the same conditions, one must contradict by alleging that the current case is not similar, or that the conditions differ.
329-323 BC
All of modern philosophy derives from Descartes.
1915
It must be admitted that evil is but a defect of good (éllipsis toû agathoû).
c. 253-270 AD
Bes
1st century BCE–1st century CE
Wise is the one who considers yes and no from the center of the circumference, and lets the wheel turn. [...] Wise is the one who acts when circumstances are favorable and ceases to act when the time is right.
4th century BC
Through his abdication, Charles V in turn rose above fortune.
1636
Freedom of commerce [...]. Industrial prosperity without tariffs or customs.
1864-1866
It matters little to a nation that an author says foolish things [...] but it matters a great deal that a minister does not do them.
1772
Wall paintings on black ground: from the imperial villa at Boscotrecase
last decade of the 1st century BCE
[...] those who seek the Kingdom of God find the rest on their way.
1697
This machine frees the one who operates it from this vexation; it is enough that he has judgment, it relieves him of the defect of memory.
1642-1645
Today, religion has taken the place of philosophy; it keeps an eye on all our conduct: it has the right to regulate our actions, our words, even our thoughts and our inclinations.
1751
Show only one science in yourself, that of not failing to get what you desire, and not falling into what you want to avoid.
c. 108 AD
Saint John the Evangelist Raises Drusiana
ca. 1460