“interchangeably. There are numerous biblical texts expressing Yahweh’s hatred and condemnation of all people who could be generically defined as witches: “diviners,”… — Monica Sjöö Copy Share Image
“Big Stupid leapt up. Little Duane had a gun. Big Stupid punched Little Duane so hard his whole family tree died back… — Victor Gischler 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
We have no functioning parliament in Egypt and months ago Mohammed Morsi assumed legislative functions. Now he's decided that there should be… — Mohamed ElBaradei Copy Share Image
“Larry smiled a trifle ruefully. "Like Rolla [who is?], I've come too late into a world too old. I should have been… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
In the Middle Age, in Germany, if you wanted to learn addition and multiplication, you could go to any university. But if… — Israel Gelfand Copy Share Image
The usual marriage in traditional cultures was arranged for by the families. It wasn't a person-to-person decision at all. . . .… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
Gay people, certainly gay people of my generation, at least of a certain echelon - middle-class Americans - have binocular vision. We… — Daniel Mendelsohn Copy Share Image
I wonder how long this word will last, governed exclusively by the merciless, inhuman and immoral criteria of global economy. Seeing the… — Tiziano Terzani Copy Share Image
“Being an author of a book is like being a mother of a debutante in the Middle Ages. You have to present… — Elvira Baryakina Copy Share Image
What horrifies me most is the idea of being useless: well-educated, brilliantly promising, and fading out into an indifferent middle age. — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
“The hour between dog and wolf, that is, dusk, when the two can’t be distinguished from each other, suggests a lot of… — Jean Genet Copy Share Image
“In short, the interaction between science and religion in the Middle Ages was not an abstract encounter between bodies of fixed ideas… — Gary B. Ferngren Copy Share Image
“Few in our government and in the public sector have openly confronted the threat offered by the use of but one nuclear… — William R. Forstchen Copy Share Image
“During the Middle Ages some weddings were even held in cemeteries, since it was believed the life-affirming act of marriage could halt… — Anita Diamant Copy Share Image
Mankind became hysterical in the Middle Ages because it poorly repressed the sexual impressions of its Greek boyhood. — Karl Kraus Copy Share Image
LORE, n. Learning --particularly that sort which is not derived from a regular course of instruction but comes of the reading of… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
In antiquity and the Middle Ages reading was necessarily reading aloud. — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
The greatest tragedy in the history of Christianity was neither the Crusades nor the Reformation nor the Inquisition, but rather the split… — Hans Urs von Balthasar Copy Share Image
During the Middle Ages, probably one of the biggest mistakes was not putting on your armor because you were "just going down… — Jack Handey Copy Share Image
At the beginning of the twentieth century barbarism can throw off its gentle disguise, and burn a man at the stake as… — Thomas Bailey Aldrich Copy Share Image
“Between two each places stands a two-handed bowl, or ecuelle, which is filled with soup or stew. Two neighbors share the ecuelle,… — Joseph Gies Copy Share Image
“When we recall the great influence which Spenser's poetry has exerted on English poets who have lived and written since his day,… — Owen Barfield Copy Share Image
“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
