Love & Life Sayings

64 sayings found from the Early Modern era from 64 authors

The papacy is the kingdom of the devil, and the pope is the Antichrist.

— Martin Luther 1537
Life & Death

If there are hundreds of moons and thousands of suns, without the Guru, there is only utter darkness.

— Guru Nanak c. 15th-16th century CE
Life & Death

This most beautiful system of the sun, planets and comets, could only proceed from the counsel and dominion of an intelligent and powerful Being.

— Isaac Newton Approximate, from his scientific or theological works
Nature & World

Wine is sunlight, held together by water.

— Galileo Galilei Approximate
Nature & World

There are no species in nature, only individuals.

— Carl Linnaeus c. 1770s
Nature & World

Nature is nowhere accustomed to exhibit herself more openly than in her failures.

— William Harvey c. 1650s (attributed)
Nature & World

I am the sultan of love.

— Suleiman the Magnificent 16th century (approx. 1520-1566)
Love & Relationships

Give the peasants neither life nor death.

— Tokugawa Ieyasu 17th century (approx. 1603-1616)
Life & Death

Myself always wallowing in drunkenness, fornication, adultery, filth, murders, rapine, despoliation, hatred and all sorts of evil-doing.

— Ivan the Terrible 1573
Life & Death

Man's nature, so to speak, is a perpetual factory of idols.

— John Calvin 1536
Nature & World

I have often thought, that if I were to choose a food to eat, it should be bread and water.

— John Wesley 1740
Nature & World

To attribute the motion of the earth to the sun is as absurd as to attribute the motion of the sun to the earth.

— Nicolaus Copernicus N/A
Nature & World

I am a German, and I love my country.

— Johannes Kepler Circa 1600s
Love & Relationships

Indeed, nature is full of infinite reasons that have never been in experience.

— Leonardo da Vinci c. 1500s
Nature & World

He that falls in love with himself will have no rivals.

— Benjamin Franklin 1739
Love & Relationships

We must trust to nothing but facts: these are presented to us by nature and cannot deceive.

— Antoine Lavoisier 1789
Nature & World

It is the lot of man to suffer; but it is also his lot to alleviate the sufferings of others.

— Edward Jenner c. 1815
Life & Death

He who studies the stars does not fear the darkness.

— Tycho Brahe late 16th century
Life & Death

Nature is not a goddess, but a machine.

— Robert Boyle mid-17th century
Nature & World

I am embarked on a wide ocean, boundless in its prospect, and in which, perhaps, no safe harbor is to be found.

— George Washington 1789
Nature & World
Your Cart

Your cart is empty