“I love the French and Italian church paintings from the Middle Ages. But I'm also interested to learn more about who was… — Jen Lancaster Copy Share Image
“New Rule: Churches have to stop ringing the damn bells. It was a good idea in the Middle Ages, but people have… — Bill Maher 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
“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
“The ruling groups were always infected to some extent by liberal ideas, and were content to leave loose ends everywhere, to regard… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
The technology that threatens to kill off books as we know them - the 'physical book,' a new phrase in our language… — Art Spiegelman 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
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
“Killing, raping and looting have been common practices in religious societies, and often carried out with clerical sanction. The catalogue of notorious… — Jeffrey Tayler Copy Share Image
“Two diametrically opposed points of view concerning religion in the West are to bee seen among Muslims. Some consider all Westerners to… — Seyyed Hossein Nasr Copy Share Image
“It’s like we've been flung back in time," he said. "Here we are in the Stone Age, knowing all these great things… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
“Perhaps I shouldn't call it shit. That's a bit crude. I don't really despise Christianity or even the Roman Church, and certainly… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
“i mean talk about decadence," he declared, "how decadent can a society get? Look at it this way. This country's probably the… — Richard Yates Copy Share Image
“How, then, do terrorists manage to dominate the headlines and change the political situation throughout the world? By provoking their enemies to… — Homo Deus 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
“It is certain that the labors of these early workers in the field of natural knowledge were brought to a standstill by… — Thomas Henry Huxley Copy Share Image
“It was thought in the Middle Ages that people simply make many observations, and the observations themselves suggest the laws. But it… — Richard Feynman Copy Share Image
“In the Middle Ages, as in antiquity, they read usually, not as today, principally with the eyes, but with the lips, pronouncing… — Jean Leclercq Copy Share Image
“It was then that Boniface issued the most scandalous papal bull of the Middle Ages – the Unam Sanctam of 1302: “We… — Charles River Editors 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
“Back in medieval times, " I said, "we used oil of vitriol for its healing properties. No doubt that's why Commodus had… — Rick Riordan 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
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
belated maternity has had its compensations; small children have a habit of conferring persistent youth upon their parents, and by their eager… — Vera Brittain 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
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
In Venice in the Middle Ages there was once a profession for a man called a codega--a fellow you hired to walk… — Elizabeth Gilbert 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
Western elites - the beneficiaries of 60 years of peace and prosperity achieved by the sacrifices to defeat fascism and Communism -… — Victor Davis Hanson 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
It is not architectural achievement that makes the structures of earlier times seem to us so full of significance but the circumstance… — Ludwig Mies van der Rohe Copy Share Image
I have a feeling there is no ideal situation, unless she could go back in time and be 22 again. I think… — Amanda Peet Copy Share Image
“If you close your eyes when you sing in Latin, and if you stand right at the back so you can keep… — Carol Rifka Brunt Copy Share Image
In the agreement to rescue Rome [i.e., the Roman Catholic Church's hierarchy] from the predicament of losing its world control to Protestantism,… — John Daniel 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
“The rat population thrived in such a horrible mess. Ironically, cats were believed to be the consorts of witches in those days,… — Amy Stewart Copy Share Image
“We inhabit a world so inundated with composite pictorial-verbal forms [...] and with the technology for the rapid, cheap production of words… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Love in the modern sense does not exist in antiquity except outside of official society,” notes Engels: at the very point where… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
“Everything we learn—economics, philosophy, biology, mathematics—has to be understood in light of the overarching reality of the character of God. That is… — R.C. Sproul Copy Share Image
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