Actions Quotes Logo

Renaissance Quotes

Destroying rainforest for economic gain is like burning a Renaissance painting to cook a meal.

I want to be a Renaissance Woman. I want to paint, and I want to write, and I want to act, and I jus...

Show More

We are fascinated by Ramses as Renaissance Christians were by the American Indians, those (human?) b...

Show More
Picture of Jean Baudrillard
Jean BaudrillardSimulacra and Simulation

Je hay entre autres vices, cruellement la cruauté, et par nature et par jugement, comme l'extreme de...

Show More

J'accuse toute violence en l'education d'une ame tendre, qu'on dresse pour l'honneur, et la liberté.

L'honneste est stable et permanent.

D'autant que nous avons cher, estre, et estre consiste en mouvement et action.

Heureuse la mort qui oste le loisir aux apprests de tel equipage.

L'utilité du vivre n'est pas en l'espace: elle est en l'usage.

Il n'est rien qui tente mes larmes que les larmes.

Les naturels sanguinaires à l'endroit des bestes, tesmoignent une propension naturelle à la cruauté.

Nature a, (ce crains-je) elle mesme attaché à l'homme quelque instinct à l'inhumanité

During periods of root expansion things have always looked as confused and topsy-turvy and purposele...

Show More
Picture of Robert M. Pirsig
Robert M. PirsigZen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values

[how can anyone] be silly enough to think himself better than other people, because his clothes are ...

Show More

I shower in the dark, barely able to tell soap from conditioner, and tell myself that I will emerge ...

Show More

No account of the Renaissance can be complete without some notice of the attempt made by certain Ita...

Show More

PASSIONS are likened best to floods and streams: The shallow murmur, but the deep are dumb;

PASSIONS are likened best to floods and streams: The shallow murmur, but the deep are dumb;

PASSIONS are likened best to floods and streams: The shallow murmur, but the deep are dumb;

PASSIONS are likened best to floods and streams: The shallow murmur, but the deep are dumb;