Medieval Quotes

163 Medieval quotes by 143 unique authors

Afghanistan is a rural nation, where 85 percent of people live in the countryside. And out there it's very, very conservative, very tribal - almost… — Khaled Hosseini
During the shooting of a scene the director’s eye has to catch even the minutest detail. But this does not mean glaring concentratedly at the… — Akira Kurosawa
Paris was a universe whole and entire unto herself, hollowed and fashioned by history; so she seemed in this age of Napoleon III with her… — Anne Rice
The 'medical examination' to which abductees are said to be subjected, often accompanied by sadistic sexual manipulation, is reminiscient of the medieval tales of encounters… — Jacques Vallee
We are living in modern times throughout the world and yet are dominated by medieval minds. — Unknown Author
Thank goodness we don't live in medieval times, when people fought wars over ideas. — Wojciech Jaruzelski
In this modern world, the celibacy of the medieval learned class has been replaced by a celibacy of the intellect which is divorced from the… — Alfred North Whitehead
In medieval times, the Church used to sell 'indulgences' for money. This amounted to paying for some number of days' remission from purgatory, and the… — Richard Dawkins
It [the scientific revolution] outshines everything since the rise of Christianity and reduces the Renaissance and Reformation to the rank of mere episodes, mere internal… — Herbert Butterfield
In the index to the six hundred odd pages of Arnold Toynbee's A Study of History, abridged version, the names of Copernicus, Galileo, Descartes and… — Arthur Koestler
I don't know of a single instance of these Arab freedom fighters holding up pictures of bin Laden. I know many instances of them displaying… — Paul Wolfowitz
Mine was not an Enlightened mind, I now was aware: it was a Gothic mind, medieval in its temper and structure. I did not love… — Russell Kirk
Ancient metaphysics underwent many changes at the hands of medieval thinkers who brought it in line with the dominant religious and theological movements of their… — Wilhelm Dilthey
Our culture will become like it was during the medieval times when there truly was a cultural elite. The rest of the people will just… — Jackie Kennedy
It is sad that while science moves ahead in exciting new areas of research, fine-tuning our knowledge of how life originated and evolved, creationists remain… — Michael Shermer
The real problem of humanity is the following: we have paleolithic emotions; medieval institutions; and god-like technology. And it is terrifically dangerous, and it is… — E. O. Wilson
It is in the fusion of autochthonous Jews with semi-Jewish Khazars and Kabars in the tenth century that we must seek the earliest demographic basis… — Unknown Author
There was nothing medieval people liked better, or did better, than sorting out and tidying up. Of all our modern inventions I suspect that they… — C.S. Lewis
The medieval Church believed that the resurrection of Christ marked a new time for all of humanity. — Timothy Radcliffe
Enclosure, upon its completion, was the record which represented the achievement of all the musical goals I had been aiming at for the previous 5… — John Frusciante
The next time somebody announces that he plans to get Medieval on your ass, tell him you're going to get Renaissance on his gonads. — James K. Morrow
In medieval times, if someone displayed the symptoms we now identify as boredom, that person was thought to be committing something called acedia, a 'dangerous… — Richard Louv
I think present-day reason is an analogue of the flat earth of the medieval period. If you go too far beyond it youre presumed to… — Robert M. Pirsig
In the medieval tradition, Beksinski seems to believe art to be a forewarning about the fragility of the flesh– whatever pleasures we know are doomed… — Guillermo del Toro
Nothing but mountains filled with barbarous ethnics with views as medieval as their muskets, and unspeakably cruel too — Alexander Cockburn

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