Dante Alighieri was the greatest of Italian poets, and, many readers think, one of the greatest poets that Western civilization has produced.
He wrote the epic work Divina Commedia (The Divine Comedy) in dialect Italian. Divina Commedia represented the cosmology and
cosmogony of Dante's day. Dante also wrote De Monarchia, a treatise on political science. He believed that the purpose of government
was to preserve peace and the best form was a world monarchy. According to his concept, universe was a perfect, hierarchal, intelligible cosmos.
(1265-1321)
Nature is the art of God.
~ Dante Alighieri
No one thinks of how much blood it costs.
~ Dante Alighieri
Go forth and preach impostures to the world,
But give them truth to build on.
~ Dante Alighieri
O conscience, upright and stainless, how bitter a sting to thee is a little fault!
~ Dante Alighieri
The customs and fashions of men change like leaves on the bough, some of which go and others come.
~ Dante Alighieri
The more perfect a thing is, the more susceptible to good and bad treatment it is.
~ Dante Alighieri
The sad souls of those who lived without blame and without praise.
~ Dante Alighieri
The secret of getting things done is to act!
~ Dante Alighieri
Will cannot be quenched against its will.
~ Dante Alighieri
The fair request ought to be followed by the deed, in silence.
~ Dante Alighieri
I am searching for that which every man seeks-peace and rest.
~ Dante Alighieri
Come, follow me, and leave the world to its babblings.
~ Dante Alighieri
A fair request should be followed by the deed in silence.
~ Dante Alighieri
For what is liberty but the unhampered translation of will into act?
~ Dante Alighieri
There sighs, lamentations and loud wailings resounded through the starless air, so that at first it made me weep; strange tongues, horrible language,
words of pain, tones of anger,
voices loud and hoarse, and with these the sound of hands, made a tumult which is whirling through that air forever dark, and sand eddies in a whirlwind.
~ Dante Alighieri
For where the instrument of intelligence is added to brute power and evil will, mankind is powerless in its own defense.
~ Dante Alighieri
Do ye not comprehend that we are worms born to bring forth the angelic butterfly that flieth unto judgment without screen?
~ Dante Alighieri
We climbed up…until I finally saw through a round opening the beauteous things which Heaven holds. And there we came out to see, once more, the stars.
~ Dante Alighieri
Beauty awakens the soul to act.
~ Dante Alighieri
Worldly fame is but a breath of wind that blows now this way, and now that, and changes name as it changes direction.
~ Dante Alighieri
You shall find out how salt is the taste of another man's bread, and how hard is the way up and down another man's stairs.
~ Dante Alighieri
We must overact our part in some measure, in order to produce any effect at all.
~ Dante Alighieri
Samuel Langhorne Clemens (November 30, 1835 - April 21, 1910), better known by the pen name Mark Twain, was a popular American author and humorist.
Upon his death he was lauded as the "greatest American humorist of his age."
Twain was called "the father of American literature"
and he was most noted for his novels Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.
(1835-1910)
Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.
~ Carl Sagan
The difference between what the most and the least learned people
know is inexpressibly trivial in relation to that which is unknown.
~ Albert Einstein
Equipped with his five senses, man explores the universe around him and calls the adventure Science.
~ Edwin Hubble
