“This is not a matter of compromises or adaptations. The power of a new Middle Ages is needed. A change, interior as… — Julius Evola Copy Share Image
If you can't be pretty, you have to learn to make yourself attractive. I found that all the pretty girls I went… — Iris Apfel Copy Share Image
Most established novelists are writing books informed by experiences gained in their youth. Middle age is not the best time to be… — Charles Stross Copy Share Image
In the Middle Ages, psychosis may have involved visions of the devil, snakes, or witches. In the 21st century, it can involve… — Zeynep Tufekci Copy Share Image
“In the late Middle Ages the stupefying simplicity of the heliocentric model was used as an argument to discredit the new astronomy.… — Ivan Illich Copy Share Image
“When humanity finally emerges from the Middle Ages altogether, when he stops connecting psychic behavior with"the work of the Devil" or with… — Daniel Logan Copy Share Image
There is a time of life somewhere between the sullen fugues of adolescence and the retrenchments of middle age when human nature… — Edward Hoagland Copy Share Image
I suppose that anyone who does any kind of creative work some time in their life - especially as you grow into… — Daniel Day-Lewis Copy Share Image
“In the Middle Ages there was no salvation outside the Church, and the theologians had a hard time explaining what God did… — Ivan Illich Copy Share Image
“Some were Levellers, an egalitarian movement that flowered briefly in the late 1640s. Strikingly modern in their aims, the Levellers wanted religious… — Charles Spencer Copy Share Image
“The first thing for you to understand is that in this place there are no martyrdoms. You have read of the religious… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“Sometimes silences are pregnant and sometimes not. It is hard to know what to make of the silence of much of the… — Ben Witherington III Copy Share Image
“The rising influence of lay piety is particularly marked upon the Mariological controversies of the late medieval period. Two rival positions developed:… — Alister E. McGrath Copy Share Image
“In most Christian imagery of the Middle Ages and Renaissance, the suffering, damned Jews were portrayed as unsympathetic caricatures. This was an… — Benjamin Blech Copy Share Image
“For Plato, the quickening of the heart that occurred when a person saw his or her loved one was just a step… — Stephen Amidon Copy Share Image
“Men would no longer be victims of nature or of their own largely irrational societies: reason would triumph; universal harmonious cooperation, true… — Isaiah Berlin Copy Share Image
In the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, man's dispute with madness was dramatic debate in which he confronted the secret powers of… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
Rioting has always been a London tradition. It has been since the early Middle Ages. There's hardly a spate of years that… — Peter Ackroyd Copy Share Image
“He is everything she expected, all that she seeks: hushed, musical eerie voice, dark looks, dreamy haunted expression, an adventurer of the… — Orna Ross Copy Share Image
We are more gullible and superstitious today than we were in the Middle Ages, and an example of modern credulity is the… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Everybody in mathematics had given up for 100 years or 200 years the idea that you could from pictures, from looking at… — Benoit Mandelbrot Copy Share Image
“One thing you can say for the middle ages, in those days, if you went out to find something, like say, the… — William Kherbek Copy Share Image
The story of 'Mirror Mirror' is in many ways a story about evolution. It's about the evolution of a child into an… — Gregory Maguire Copy Share Image
“Sometimes the pagan spirit of Roman poetry arouses qualms. Guibert of Nogent confesses in his autobiography that early in his monastic life… — Joseph Gies Copy Share Image
By May, 1st, 1937, there should not be one single church left within the borders of Soviet Russia, and the idea of… — Joseph Stalin Copy Share Image
There is a creative pleasure, which, for instance, the artisan in the Middle Ages, or in a country like Mexico, still today… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
When asked "What do we need to learn this for?" any high-school teacher can confidently answer that, regardless of the subject, the… — David Sedaris Copy Share Image
The world is always full of brilliant youth which fades into grey and embittered middle age: the first flowering takes everything. The… — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
Life is not stationary. Seconds, minutes, hours, days, weeks, months, and years all tick away at the same clip for everyone. No… — Hugh W. Pinnock Copy Share Image
The year 2008 was a reminder to those who had forgotten that there is such a thing as history and that the… — James Buchan Copy Share Image
“the use of atbash in the Bible sensitized the monks and scribes of the Middle Ages to the idea of letter substitution.… — David Kahn Copy Share Image
Gardening is one of the rewards of middle age, when one is ready for an impersonal passion, a passion that demands patience,… — May Sarton Copy Share Image
Some have called we rock and roll performers who never retire 'troubadours.' I enjoy this misnomer immensely. While there are many differences… — Frank Black Copy Share Image
It was stone carvers in ancient Rome, scribes in the Middle Ages, all the way through Gutenberg to the present day. That's… — Michael Bierut Copy Share Image
The word Gothic, in the sense in which it is generally employed, is wholly unsuitable, but wholly consecrated. Hence we accept it… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
When we were children, there was a silent part of us watching the child. When we were adolescents, there was that same… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
In the Middle Ages, the troubadour poets invented the concept of courtly love--a fantasy love, a noble passion, which was also extra-marital… — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
“To return to antiquity [in literature]: that has been done. To return to the Middle Ages: that too has been done. Remains… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
By the proper intakes of vitamins and other nutrients and by following a few other healthful practices from youth or middle age… — Linus Pauling Copy Share Image
History is filled with weird but true stories of social contagion - from dancing manias in the Middle Ages to nuns pretending… — Susannah Cahalan Copy Share Image
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