“Is it necessary to recall that the earth is not infinite, and that our civilization is close to having invaded all of… — Gabriel Tarde Copy Share Image
Well, He had known what love was-a sharp pang, a fierce experience, in the midst of whose flames he was struggling! but,… — Elizabeth Gaskell Copy Share Image
The goal of the operation is to send Gaza back to the Middle Ages, only then will Israel be calm for the… — Michael Ben-Ari Copy Share Image
I’m 59 and people call me middle aged. How many 118 year old men do you know? — Barry Cryer Copy Share Image
Astrology is knocking at the gates of our universities: A Tübingen professor has switched over to astrology and a course on astrology… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
“It's for us that the University exists, for the dispossessed of the world; not for the students, not for the selfless pursuit… — John Williams Copy Share Image
“The times do not call for grassroots political activism, as if the next election might be enough to reverse a massive cultural… — Paul D. Miller Copy Share Image
“The unity of style not only of the Christian Middle Ages but of the Renaissance expresses in each case the different structure… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Book Bans Are Dumb (Sonnet 1587) Book bans are dumb, It makes the mind numb. If banning books were justice, Middle ages… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
As a precocious teen I dreamed of being Graham Greene. Well, as it turned out, I never wrote a great novel, sadly,… — Julie Burchill Copy Share Image
“Terrorists are like a fly that tries to destroy a china shop. The fly is so weak that it cannot budge even… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“They are not brave, the days when we are twenty-one. They are full of little cowardices, little fears without foundation, and one… — Daphne du Maurier Copy Share Image
What folly made young people, even those in middle age, think they were immortal? How much better, their lives, if they could… — Rohinton Mistry Copy Share Image
“Al-Kind¯ı’s work revived philosophy as living practice and introduced it in the new social environment of Abbasid Baghdad by making it relevant… — Dimitri Gutas Copy Share Image
“Christianity offers similar stories, and the global Christianity that perished in the late Middle Ages has revived in the past century. China… — Philip Jenkins Copy Share Image
A man's diary is a record in youth of his sentiments, in middle age of his actions, in old age of his… — John Quincy Adams Copy Share Image
I have never yet heard any middle-aged man or woman who worked with his or her brains express any regret for the… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
Only the middle-aged have all their five senses in the keeping of their wits. — Hervey Allen Copy Share Image
“...The [Renaissance] interest in education was also influenced by a changing economy. For different reasons in different countries, agriculture was becoming less… — Patricia D. Netzley Copy Share Image
Programming is how we talk to the machines that are increasingly woven into our lives. If you aren't a programmer, you're like… — Tim O'Reilly Copy Share Image
“In a sense the rise of Anabaptism was no surprise. Most revolutionary movements produce a wing of radicals who feel called of… — Bruce L. Shelley Copy Share Image
We often forget that Spain controlled big parts of Europe, in Italy and the Netherlands. In the Middle Ages, Spain and Portugal… — Max Fisher Copy Share Image
The philosophers of the Middle Ages demonstrated both that the Earth did not exist and also that it was flat. Today they… — Vilhjalmur Stefansson Copy Share Image
“The earliest medieval logical curriculum, studied from the time of Alcuin’s On Dialectic (late 780s?) until the late tenth century, was based… — John Marenbon Copy Share Image
“As indicated by the book’s sub-title, it is now increasingly obvious that those who would seek to be conquerors of the world… — John Price Copy Share Image
