The classic theology of my tradition comes from the French Renaissance. [William] Shakespeare was born in 1564, the year [John] Calvin died,… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
It [the scientific revolution] outshines everything since the rise of Christianity and reduces the Renaissance and Reformation to the rank of mere… — Herbert Butterfield Copy Share Image
We are living in a renaissance of personal writing. People are rebalancing the impersonalization endemic to modern society with an increase in… — Christina Baldwin Copy Share Image
Aquinas brought an Aristotelian view of reason back into European culture, and lighted the way toward the Renaissance. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
The things that I look at include Renaissance art. I'm obsessed with churches and paintings of saints. — Nan Goldin Copy Share Image
The Renaissance was a time of mercenary soldiers, ours is a time of mercenary labor. — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
“Love is the linchpin that connects the material world with higher levels of existence.” — Julianne Davidow Copy Share Image
Bake Off' has been a renaissance for me. I turn up, taste something and get paid rather well. What could be nicer? — Prue Leith Copy Share Image
I love television. I think we're in a renaissance of epic proportion in television now. — Dennis Lehane Copy Share Image
After I'd been in college for a couple years I'd read Shakespeare and Frost and Chaucer and the poets of the Harlem… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
The rise of the dramas in the thirteenth century, and the rise of the great novels in a later period, together with… — Hu Shih Copy Share Image
If I could have picked an era to have lived, I think I would've loved to have been one of Louis XIV's… — Katie McGrath Copy Share Image
Our culture has kind of let the concept of the Renaissance Man die out. We don't really tell the kids that it's… — Ronan Farrow Copy Share Image
We need a renaissance of wonder. We need to renew, in our hearts and in our souls, the deathless dream, the eternal… — E. Merrill Root Copy Share Image
No account of the Renaissance can be complete without some notice of the attempt made by certain Italian scholars of the fifteenth… — Walter Pater Copy Share Image
Why is Kerala distinct from many other states? It is simply because of the glorious movements of reforms that brought renaissance to… — Pinarayi Vijayan Copy Share Image
There's a creativity, a power, an energy, an ability to do things unlike any other period in history. It's a little bit… — Juan Enriquez Copy Share Image
Had there been no Renaissance and no Italian influence to bring in the stories of other lands English history would, it may… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
While I was drawn to the Renaissance, my first (unpublished) novels took place in modern times. When the subject of alchemy started… — Mary Pope Osborne Copy Share Image
Pathology, probably more than any other branch of science, suffers from heroes and hero-worship. Rudolf Virchow has been its archangel and William… — Harry S.N. Greene Copy Share Image
“To a very strange lizard, found by the gardener of the Belvedere, he [Leonardo] fastened some wings with a mixture of quicksilver… — Girogio Vasari Copy Share Image
Christopher Lynch has made the best and the first careful translation of Machiavelli's Art of War. With useful notes, an excellent introduction,… — Harvey Mansfield Copy Share Image
People will get tired of overly retouched images soon and they'll want something different. If people have too much reality, they want… — David LaChapelle Copy Share Image
Rapunzel is a bit more relatable than the other princesses, especially because she doesn't even know that she's a princess until the… — Mandy Moore Copy Share Image
America owed its military renaissance in the 1980s and 1990s to Vietnam. Veterans like Norman Schwartzkopf, Colin Powell, Alfred Grey, Charles Krulak,… — Michael Ignatieff Copy Share Image
Patterned after an Italian Renaissance palace, it is 88 times as large and one millionth as valuable to the continuation of man.… — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
Fencing is a funny sport. Competitive fencing is not really very applicable to the stage world unless you're fighting with a rapier… — Kris Holden-Ried Copy Share Image
[T]he more the public is confused, the easier it falls prey to doctrines of pseudo-science which may at some future date recieve… — Martin Gardner Copy Share Image
We may affirm, then, that the main drift of the later Renaissance was away from a humanism that favored a free expansion… — Irving Babbitt Copy Share Image
I thought of the words of the Renaissance philosopher Michel de Montaigne. "If you press me to say why I loved him,… — Josh Lanyon Copy Share Image
I am here before you tonight to dedicate this administration to bringing a new renaissance of neighborhood life and community spirit, a… — Jane Byrne Copy Share Image
The hallmark of the Renaissance was its holistic quality as all fields of art, engineering, science and culture shared the same exciting… — Joel Garreau Copy Share Image
“Man is mortal. This is his fate. Man pretends not to be mortal. That is his sin. Man is a creature of… — Sylvan Barnet Copy Share Image
I would certainly never consider myself a Renaissance Man; I'm not fit to look at the dust from the chariot wheels of… — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
Going into 'Da Vinci's Demons' I didn't know anything about renaissance music and going into 'Black Sails,' I didn't know about sea… — Bear McCreary Copy Share Image
I only know about a few things, but I am quite good at bluffing. There are a whole range of subjects, including… — Jools Holland Copy Share Image
English has been this vacuum cleaner of a language, because of its history meeting up with the Romans and then the Danes,… — David Crystal Copy Share Image
I do feel we live through what I like to call The 2nd Renaissance, but although I foresee a widespread return to… — Varg Vikernes Copy Share Image
“Giovanni's behavior had changed dramatically since he had opened that crate. He felt haunted. [After meeting the portrait of Botticelli's Bastard]” — Stephen Maitland-Lewis Copy Share Image
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![“To a very strange lizard, found by the gardener of the Belvedere, he [Leonardo] fastened some wings with a mixture of quicksilver made from scales scraped from other lizards, which quivered as it moved by crawling about. After he had fashioned eyes, a horn, and a beard for it, he tamed the lizard…” quote by Girogio Vasari](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/4f5/girogio-vasari-157633_humor_to-a-very-strange-lizard-found-by-the-ga_3179636.jpg)
![“[T]he more the public is confused, the easier it falls prey to doctrines of pseudo-science which may at some future date recieve the backing of politically powerful groups [...]a renaissance of German quasi-science paralleled the rise of Hitler.” quote by Martin Gardner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/7a1/martin-gardner-15175_confused_t-he-more-the-public-is-confused-the-eas_2720201.jpg)
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