Athens is the birthplace of modern tragedy. In the Greek tragic plays, the tableau of the characters would become a statue, like… — Simon Van Booy Copy Share Image
Manhattanism is the one urbanistic ideology that has fed, from its conception, on the splendors and miseries of the metropolitan condition—hyper-density—without once… — Rem Koolhaas Copy Share Image
I believe there is no liturgy in the world, either in ancient or modern language, which breathes more of a solid, scriptural,… — John Wesley Copy Share Image
There is no modern prototype for a campus. You have to have a completely different model which has to do with transparency… — Thom Mayne Copy Share Image
I have sometimes called this 'double listening'. Listening to the voice of God in Scripture, and listening to the voices of the… — John Stott Copy Share Image
The great thing about university is that they incline you to get up and do it, from the Classics to modern plays,… — Michael York Copy Share Image
Faith in the possibility of science, generated antecedently to the development of modern scientific theory, is an unconscious derivative from medieval theology. — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
The obscurity, incredibility and obscenity, so conspicuous in many parts of it, would justly condemn the works of a modern writer. It… — Elihu Palmer Copy Share Image
So this judge in Virginia rules that a lesbian wasn't fit to raise her own daughter because she might grow up to… — Chris Cannon Copy Share Image
I think that Rodney Stark studies of new religious movements in the modern world give us some insights into the kinds of… — Larry Hurtado Copy Share Image
The attempt to redefine the family as a purely voluntary arrangement grows out of the modern delusion that people can keep all… — Christopher Lasch Copy Share Image
The truly modern artist is aware of abstraction in an emotion of beauty. — Piet Mondrian Copy Share Image
A lot of modern comedies are difficult to watch too, because they're so ironic and so detached and so quote-unquote clever. They… — Ty Burrell Copy Share Image
In modern industrial society only minimal effort is necessary to satisfy one's physical needs. — Theodore Kaczynski Copy Share Image
Certainly in the modern age where everything is glossed over, when somebody speaks their mind, the majority of the public go, I'd… — Pete Waterman Copy Share Image
Modern man has been in search of a new language of form to satisfy new longings and aspirations - longings for mental… — Herbert Read Copy Share Image
The pressure to make public retractions of past statements - there's something medieval about it. What does it mean, anyway, to 'retract'… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
Anthropologists have often described what happens to a primitive society when its spiritual values are exposed to the impact of modern civilisation.… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
The combination of modern ordnance and outdated tactics had, as usual, created enormous casualties on both sides. — Iain Banks Copy Share Image
We three belong to the Middle Ages. We have this need of heroism, and there is no place for such feelings in… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
Neither the Church nor modern public opinion condemns petting, provided it stops short at a certain point. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
The repression of virtuous instinct in the modern world is an incremental tragedy. Repress one instinct, and you repress many; other parts… — Michael Leunig Copy Share Image
I read a lot of detective stories because they always deliver. They give you a beginning, a middle, and an end -… — Robert Cormier Copy Share Image
