“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
In the medieval tradition, Beksinski seems to believe art to be a forewarning about the fragility of the flesh– whatever pleasures we… — Guillermo del Toro Copy Share Image
When you get a new worldview you get a new world. It's like the shift from medieval Christianity to the Renaissance and… — Barbara Marx Hubbard 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
with the breakdown of the medieval system, the gods of chaos, lunacy, and bad taste gained ascendancy. — John Kennedy Toole 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
Television is the Antichrist, and I can assure you after only three or four generations, people will no longer even know how… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon Copy Share Image
“Light - both physical and moral - was a central concern to the men and women living in the medieval age. They… — Douglas Wilson Douglas Jones 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
“It took a long moment, but Gerard finally raised his head and looked Jon in the eye. “It meant that I have… — Hank Edwards 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
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
“Considering that Timur had ignored every instrument of government except terror, it is remarkable his immediate successors managed to retain control of… — Colin McEvedy 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
Baseball and cricket are beautiful and highly stylized medieval war substitutes, chess made flesh, a mixture of proud chivalry and base-in both… — John Fowles Copy Share Image
In the ancient world, taxes were paid in kind: landowners paid in crops or livestock; the landless paid with their labor. Taxing… — Jill Lepore Copy Share Image
The real problem of humanity is the following: we have paleolithic emotions; medieval institutions; and god-like technology. And it is terrifically dangerous,… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
The judgement makes no sense at all. It exposes the country, Turkey, to ridicule. It would have been so much better if… — Tariq Ali Copy Share Image
Your machinery is beautiful. Your society people have apologized to me for the envious ridicule with which your newspapers have referred to… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Like fundamentalist Judaism and medieval Christianity, Islam is totalist. That is to say, it makes a total claim on the individual. — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
My concern is to keep religion and the state separated. I don't think that religion and politics go together. When you see… — Bjorn Ulvaeus Copy Share Image
Divorce is simply modern society's version of medieval torture. Except it lasts longer and leaves deeper scars. A divorce releases the most… — William Shatner Copy Share Image
It was a ludicrous, insane situation in which modern fighting men, possessed all of the highly destructive engines of war, were ordered… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Power is always a corrupting influence. In this mythical time - let's call it medieval, feudal - people in power are dictatorial… — Charles Dance Copy Share Image
We have fought long and hard to escape from medieval superstition. I, for one, do not wish to go back. — James Randi Copy Share Image
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