“The Renaissance invented the Middle Ages in order to define itself; the Enlightenment perpetuated them in order to admire itself; and the… — Brian Stock Copy Share Image
The radical elements in Islam are very dangerous. They want to achieve a return to the Islamic purity of the Middle Ages. — Brent Scowcroft Copy Share Image
Liberals tend to understand that a person can be lucky or unlucky in all matters relevant to his success. Conservatives, however, often… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
These Greek capitals, black with age, and quite deeply graven in the stone, with I know not what signs peculiar to Gothic… — Victor Hugo 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
That conflict between the reach for the divine and the lure of earthly things was to be the central problem of the… — Barbara Tuchman Copy Share Image
“During the whole of the fucking Middle Ages, the place where they had it off most of all was the cemeteries!...people don't… — Louis-Ferdinand Céline Copy Share Image
The Jews were the money-lenders of the Middle Ages so there's a stereotype of the slightly or more than slightly dishonest business… — Reinhold Niebuhr Copy Share Image
Never have I enjoyed youth so thoroughly as I have in my old age. In writing Dialogues in Limbo, The Last Puritan,… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
I also believe - and hope - that politics and economics will cease to be as important in the future as they… — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
We are more naive than those of the Middle Ages, and more frightened, for we can be made to believe almost anything. — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
“Marriage," Swan repeated, marveling at the word. To her it was a concept from the Middle Ages, from old Earth--an idea with… — Kim Stanley Robinson Copy Share Image
We are certainly influenced by role models, and if we are surrounded by images of beautiful rich people, we will start to… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
“Throughout the Middle Ages, art and architecture had a spiritual mission: to direct man’s attention toward God. Churches soared in that direction,… — Jesse Bryant Wilder Copy Share Image
“But if you cannot at once laugh at a thing or believe in it, you have no business in the Middle Ages.… — G. K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
To the Latin, cynicism and middle age are synonymous. Look at our politicians - they move through their careers from left to… — Helen McCloy Copy Share Image
The institution of chivalry forms one of the most remarkable features in the history of the Middle Ages. — Horatio Alger Copy Share Image
“People gave you a hard time about being a kid at twelve. They didn't want to give you Halloween candy anymore. They… — Heather O'Neill Copy Share Image
Is enough to look at the Middle Ages, at the Inquisition and on the ultra religious societies that, through their fanaticism, make… — Sorin Cerin Copy Share Image
We owe to the Middle Ages the two worst inventions of humanity - romantic love and gunpowder. — Andre Maurois Copy Share Image
“The horrors of the Middle Ages were really nonexistent. A man of the Middle Ages would detest the whole mode of our… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
Our male-dominated culture tends to define success in terms of wealth, fame, power, the reaction of others. Women are fed a version… — Catherine Mayer Copy Share Image
I feel like today we always glorify the young, just-plucked-from-college writer. But it's much harder to start writing later, in middle age,… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
