Enlightenment Quote Merch
Description: Latin for "I am human, and I think that nothing of that which is human is alien to me." A quote from the Roman playwright Terence, expressing that anything human (both good and bad and in yourself and others), is something we can connect with and shouldn’t view as something we can’t relate to.
Description: Denis Diderot: The more man ascends through the past, and the more he launches into the future, the greater he will be, and all these philosophers and ministers and truth-telling men who have fallen victims to the stupidity of nations, the atrocities of priests, the fury of tyrants, what consolation was left for them in death? This: That prejudice would pass, and that posterity would pour out the vial of ignominy upon their enemies. O Posterity! Holy and sacred stay of the unhappy and the oppressed; thou who art just, thou who art incorruptible, thou who findest the good man, who unmaskest the hypocrite, who breakest down the tyrant, may thy sure faith, thy consoling faith never, never abandon me!
Description: Thomas Paine quote: A man who is so exceedingly civil that for the sake of quietude and a peaceable name will silently see the community imposed upon, or their rights invaded, may, in his principles, be a good man, but cannot be stiled a useful one, neither does he come up to the full mark of his duty; for silence becomes a kind of crime when it operates as a cover or an encouragement to the guilty.
Description: John Locke quote: The state of nature has a law of nature to govern it, which obliges every one: and reason, which is that law, teaches all mankind, who will but consult it, that being all equal and independent, no one ought to harm another in his life, health, liberty, or possessions...
Description: Famous quote from French philosopher François-Marie Arouet (1694 - 1778), also known as Voltaire. "Certainement qui est en droit de vous rendre absurde est en droit de vous rendre injuste" can be translated as "Certainly, whoever has the right to make you absurd has the right to make you unjust" or "whoever can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities".
