Ah, well, during the Middle Ages, religion was often able to redeem art. Today, however, art is about the only thing that… — Samuel R. Delany Copy Share Image
Unfortunately, at present, practically no one under thirty goes to workshops. It's a system of education entirely for the middle aged. — Rupert Sheldrake Copy Share Image
Grounded in the natural philosophy of the Middle Ages, alchemy formed a bridge: on the one hand into the past, to Gnosticism,… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
In middle age we are apt to reach the horrifying conclusion that all sorrow, all pain, all passionate regret and loss and… — Kathleen Norris Copy Share Image
In the middle ages people were tourists because of their religion, whereas now they are tourists because tourism is their religion. — Robert Runcie Copy Share Image
It seems to me that since the Middle Ages (it's not a Reformation thing), all that stuff about Jews and Gentiles coming… — N. T. Wright Copy Share Image
Fear accomplishes much in love. The husband of the Middle Ages was loved by his wife for his very severity. The bride… — Jules Michelet Copy Share Image
Beware the mediocrity that threatens middle age, its limitation of thought and interest, its dullness of fancy, its too external life, and… — Margaret Fuller Copy Share Image
“He was in that broken mood for which the Middle Ages offered the cloister as a remedy; he felt the urgent need… — John Meade Falkner Copy Share Image
The ills and disorders of the 14th century could not be without consequence. Times were to grow worse over the next fifty-odd… — Barbara Tuchman Copy Share Image
“The past is not something fixed and unalterable. Its facts are re-discoverable by every succeeding generation, its values re-assessed, its meaning re-defined… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Respect can be as elusive as the unicorn. I know something of this because I write books that are set in the… — Sharon Kay Penman Copy Share Image
It was called the Middle Ages, the Dark Ages. If not for the monks, everything the world had ever learned would have… — Dave Eggers Copy Share Image
If catastrophic geology had at times pushed Nature to almost indecent extremes of haste, uniformitarian geology, on the other hand, had erred… — William Johnson Sollas Copy Share Image
If anything, todays patterns are beginning to resemble the multi-layered complexities of the high middle ages, and not simply as played out… — John Ralston Saul Copy Share Image
“It seemed strange, the Muslim Maghrib prayer aboard a Viking ship full of atheists and pagans. Then again, Samirah's ancestors had been… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
I have met with but one or two persons in the course of my life who understood the art of Walking, that… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Marriage is not something that can be accomplished all at once; it has to be constantly reaccomplished. A couple must never indulge… — Andre Maurois Copy Share Image
There is one bit of advice given us by the ancient Greeks, and by the Jews in the Old Testament, and by… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“There’s a story, in the Bible—” “Not in the Bible,” he interrupted. “Apocryphal. Scholars seem to think it was added in the… — Robert J. Wiersema Copy Share Image
Any beings advanced enough to traverse interstellar distances are at least a thousand years beyond our technical level. Spending gobs of time… — Seth Shostak Copy Share Image
There was a good deal to be said, Hilary decided, for middle age and infirmity. The years in which one demanded much… — Elizabeth Goudge Copy Share Image
A public-school system, if it means the providing of free education for those who desire it, is a noteworthy and beneficent achievement… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“It is easy to understand that in the dreary middle ages the Aristotelian logic would be very acceptable to the controversial spirit… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
“There are hints of child sacrifice in Genesis and Exodus, including Abraham’s willingness to sacrifice Isaac. Human sacrifice was long associated with… — Simon Sebag Montefiore Copy Share Image
The discovery of a grey hair when you are brushing out your whiskers of a morning—first fallen flake of the coming snows… — Alexander Smith Copy Share Image
“There was one sure way to avoid being assigned an impromptu chore in our house - be it taking out the trash… — Will Schwalbe Copy Share Image
“Flu pandemics are nothing new. Medical historians think the first one struck in 1510, infecting Asia, Africa, Europe, and the New World.… — Albert Marrin Copy Share Image
“What Joan impressed on the men by her faith and her actions, then, had more to do with the things of God… — Donald Spoto Copy Share Image
“The same source that tipped us off about her and Wu at Kvarnen says that she used to hang out with a… — Stieg Larsson Copy Share Image
My generation is the first in my species to have put fitness next to godliness on the scale of things. Keeping in… — Ellen Goodman Copy Share Image
I would always prefer radio or working behind the scenes where I don't have to be seen. I don't like how appearance… — Susan Olsen Copy Share Image
But if anyone supposes that there was no commercial fraud in the Middle Ages, let him study the commercial legislation of England… — Goldwin Smith Copy Share Image
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