The Renaissance of Europe did not take place in the 15th century. Rather it began when Europe learned from the culture of the Arabs. The cradle of European awakening is not Italy. It is the Muslim Spain. — Robert Briffault Copy Share Image
For although there is not a single aspect of European growth in which the decisive influence of Islamic culture is not traceable, nowhere is it so clear and momentous as in the genesis of that power which constitutes the permanent… — Robert Briffault Copy Share Image
Democracy is the worst form of government. It is the most inefficient, the most clumsy, the most unpractical.... It reduces wisdom to impotence and… — Robert Briffault Copy Share Image
Absolutism is a guarantee of objectionable morals in the same way that absolutism in government is a guarantee of objectionable government. — Robert Briffault Copy Share Image
The hell of human suffering, evil and oppression is paved with good intentions. The men who have most injured and oppressed humanity, who have… — Robert Briffault Copy Share Image
For a male and female to live continuously together is biologically speaking, an extremely unnatural condition. — Robert Briffault Copy Share Image
The Renaissance of Europe did not take place in the 15th century. Rather it began when Europe learned from the culture of the Arabs.… — Robert Briffault Copy Share Image
The female, not the male, determines all the conditions of the animal family. Where the female can derive no benefit from association with the… — Robert Briffault Copy Share Image
The full-grown modern human being ... is conscious of touching the highest pinnacle of fulfillment... when he is consumed in the service of an… — Robert Briffault Copy Share Image
The old fellow who was cadging drinks from me the other night at the Cafe Royal told me he had known Julian Bern's people… — Robert Briffault Copy Share Image
The effects of infantile instruction are, like those of syphilis, never completely cured. — Robert Briffault Copy Share Image
In the past decade or so, the women's magazines have taken to running home-handyperson articles suggesting that women can learn to fix things just… — Robert Briffault Copy Share Image
The full-grown modern human being who seeks but refuge finds instead boredom and mental dissolution, unless he can be, even in his withdrawal, creative.… — Robert Briffault Copy Share Image
No myth of miraculous creation is so marvelous as the face of man's evolution. — Robert Briffault Copy Share Image
