Most cities are eclectic. There's a bit of medieval, Georgian, some Victorian and some 20th century. That's fine. Bath is different because… — Ken Loach Copy Share Image
Mine was not an Enlightened mind, I now was aware: it was a Gothic mind, medieval in its temper and structure. I… — Russell Kirk Copy Share Image
Free market ideology - does anyone know where it first comes from? It comes from medieval Islam, and specifically, Shari'a. Because Shari'a… — David Graeber Copy Share Image
I not only hope that YouTube channels compete with television shows for viewers and revenue, I hope they develop a bitter rivalry… — Ray William Johnson Copy Share Image
The pressure to make public retractions of past statements - there's something medieval about it. What does it mean, anyway, to 'retract'… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
Medievalism, with its saints and martyrs, its love of self-torture, its wild passion for wounding itself, its gashing with knives, and its… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I love medieval cities; they do not clamor for attention; they possess their souls - their riches - in quiet; formal, courteous,… — Barbara Grizzuti Harrison Copy Share Image
To cure jealousy is to see it for what it is, a dissatisfaction with self, an impossible claim that one should be… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
The idea that we would raise billions of sentient animals, treat them horribly, pollute our waterways with their waste, compromise the effectiveness… — Dale Jamieson Copy Share Image
“And you dare to wear the golden spurs of a knight? You dare to call yourself a Marshal of France and carry… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
...the history of early-medieval Arabia is nearly all legend. Like Buddha, Confucius, Jesus, and other founders of patriarchal religions, Mohammed lacks real… — Barbara G. Walker Copy Share Image
“HIPPOCRATIC OATH, n. A promise that mainly pleases the prof: “I swear by Apollo Healer, by Asclepius, by Hygieia, by Panacea, and… — Jonas Koblin Copy Share Image
“He was a strong and noble lord with piercing eyes of grey. He sat upon his noble throne shining like the dawn.… — Laurel A. Rockefeller Copy Share Image
September 11 was a day of de-Enlightenment. Politics stood revealed as a veritable Walpurgis Night of the irrational. And such old, old… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
It [the scientific revolution] outshines everything since the rise of Christianity and reduces the Renaissance and Reformation to the rank of mere… — Herbert Butterfield Copy Share Image
Science, incidentally, not only ignores the question of indwelling 'essences' by looking instead at measurable relationships, but science also does not agree… — Robert Anton Wilson Copy Share Image
Our belief in salvation through the market is very much in the Utopian tradition. The economists and managers are the servants of… — John Ralston Saul Copy Share Image
The three main medieval points of view regarding universals are designated by historians as realism, conceptualism, and nominalism. Essentially these same three… — Willard Van Orman Quine Copy Share Image
Historically, art has always had a market. When one medieval fiefdom defeated another they would drag back its jewels, gold, tapestries and… — Arne Glimcher Copy Share Image
In this modern world, the celibacy of the medieval learned class has been replaced by a celibacy of the intellect which is… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
Consumerism has become a new religion, complete with its high priests at Which? and its fatwas against anyone with the temerity to… — Sean O'Grady Copy Share Image
Freudism and all it has tainted with its grotesque implications and methods, appear to me to be one of the vilest deceits… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
Talk. I'll just wait' shall I? Because my mission to save this town is of no importance whatsoever next to your girl… — Rachel Caine Copy Share Image
The idea that it is funny to see wild animals coerced into acting like clumsy humans, or thrilling to see powerful beasts… — Desmond Morris Copy Share Image
Bruges is a beautiful medieval city almost untouched by time. If you like jazz, you will be well catered for. If you… — James Frain Copy Share Image
'Goldenheart' is like a modern-day Joan of Arc. Think of it like medieval times-cum-2045 or Lancelot and Guinevere in 3025. It's a… — Dawn Richard Copy Share Image
I think what inspires me is in a constant state of flux...it's easier to stick to photographers and perhaps cinematographers, though the… — Anton Yelchin Copy Share Image
Science, which is only another name for truth, now holds religious charlatans, self-deceivers and God agents in a certain degree of check--agents… — Luther Burbank Copy Share Image
When I moved to Wales more than twenty years ago and began to research 'Here Be Dragons,' I was fascinated from the… — Sharon Kay Penman Copy Share Image
There was nothing medieval people liked better, or did better, than sorting out and tidying up. Of all our modern inventions I… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The American legal industry is a medieval guild in which the prosecutors, bar, and bench join hands to ensure that legal invoices… — Conrad Black Copy Share Image
“How was she created? I'm not sure if you realize this, but it was in God's image. How can anybody dare to… — Christine de Pizan Copy Share Image
“Waiting for one’s execution is worse than dying. To seek my beheading is glory. Who went to his execution willingly? Jesus did.… — Stefan Emunds Copy Share Image
People with an investment in government power will torture logic like a medieval inquisitor rather than face the facts. ... There's a… — Sheldon Richman Copy Share Image
Religion, a mediaeval form of unreason, when combined with modern weaponry becomes a real threat to our freedoms. This religious totalitarianism has… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
There are really only two stories the coal industry tells: "Coal keeps the lights on, and by implication, you'll live in medieval,… — Robert F. Kennedy, Jr Copy Share Image
You end up with this succession of periods when everything was marvellous - from King Arthur to the medieval times, Ivanhoe, chivalry,… — Ian Hislop Copy Share Image
I find it pretty fascinating how humans keep gravitating towards these giant centers. I went to this walled medieval village in France… — Feist Copy Share Image
They have a lot of trouble with pronunciation, because they can't move their jaw muscles, because of malnutrition caused by wisely refusing… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
In the first book of my Discworld series, published more than 26 years ago, I introduced Death as a character; there was… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
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