Grotius Course Quotes

#1. The conventional, and painfully artificial, separation of the human realm from the natural other is bound to perish, albeit over a period of time, until we are obliged to learn how to cultivate our gardens under the most demanding conditions.

John Burnside

#2. A man cannot govern a nation if he cannot govern a city; he cannot govern a city if he cannot govern a family; he cannot govern a family unless he can govern himself; and he cannot govern himself unless his passions are subject to reason

Hugo Grotius

#3. Religious belief does not do away with either natural or human law from which sovereignty is derived.

Timothy Brook

#4. A state is a perfect body of free men, united together to enjoy common rights and advantages.

Hugo Grotius

#5. Even God cannot make two times two not make four.

Hugo Grotius

#6. Ignorance of certain subjects is a great part of wisdom.

Hugo Grotius

#7. By understanding many things, I have accomplished nothing.

Hugo Grotius

#8. I do love a man who can cook.

Emma Bunton

#9. Sometimes criminals work and for cops and criminals have favourite cops... (Person of Interest)

Deyth Banger

#10. Sins cut boldly up through every class in society, but mere misdemeanours show a certain level in life.

Elizabeth Bowen

#11. Five things make a man happy," I told him, "a good ship, a good sword, a good hound, a good horse, and a woman." "Not a good woman?" Finan asked, amused. "They're all good," I said, "except when they're not, and then they're better than good.

Bernard Cornwell

#12. Tis long ere time can mitigate your grief;
To wisdom fly, she quickly brings relief.

Hugo Grotius

#13. When Pococke inquired of Grotius, where the proof was of that story of the pigeon, trained to pick peas from Mahomet's (Muhammad's) ear, and pass for an angel dictating to him? Grotius answered that there was no proof! ...

Thomas Carlyle

#14. Men rush to arms for slight causes, or no cause at all, and once taken up there is no longer any respect for law, divine or human.

Hugo Grotius

#15. Learning from your mistake is good, but learning from others mistake is better.

Japson

#16. Ancient metaphysics underwent many changes at the hands of medieval thinkers who brought it in line with the dominant religious and theological movements of their day.

Wilhelm Dilthey

#17. Liberty is the power that we have over ourselves.

Hugo Grotius

#18. More varied than any landscape was the landscape in the sky, with islands of gold and silver, peninsulas of apricot and rose against a background of many shades of turquoise and azure.

Cecil Beaton

#19. I saw in the whole Christian world a license of fighting at which even barbarous nations might blush. Wars were begun on trifling pretexts or none at all, and carried on without any reference of law, Divine or human.

Hugo Grotius

#20. CHAPTER EIGHTY-NINE Losing the Light

Patrick Rothfuss

#21. Personal beauty requires that one should be tall; little people may have charm and elegance, but beauty-no.

Aristotle.

#22. I have spent my life laboriously doing nothing.

Hugo Grotius