Middle Ages Quotes

222 Middle Ages quotes by 191 unique authors

Everyone has this notion of the Middle Ages - certainly the early Middle Ages - as being this very superstitious era. I think that all… — Nicola Griffith
Any beings advanced enough to traverse interstellar distances are at least a thousand years beyond our technical level. Spending gobs of time examining our missiles… — Seth Shostak
During the Middle Ages, Jews were members of a semi-independent polity within a larger polity. — David Novak
Respect can be as elusive as the unicorn. I know something of this because I write books that are set in the Middle Ages, and… — Sharon Kay Penman
We forget how bawdy and brutal the Middle Ages were. — Karen Maitland
The Romans had been able to post their laws on boards in public places, confidant that enough literate people existed to read them; far into… — J M Roberts
In the Middle Ages and beyond, the target was the Court Jew who had the ear of the ruler; during the Inquisition it was the… — Jack Schwartz
Morally, the world is both better and worse than it was. We are worse off than in the middle ages, or the 17th and 18th… — Pierre Schaeffer
For three hundred years we have had our focus on the individual. We have distinguished him from the objective world as the Middle Ages did… — John Grierson
If it were a real effort to live in the Middle Ages, your life would be one perpetual prevarication. — Goldwin Smith
It flourished with the Saracens, and suffered in the obscure and fanatical days of the Middle Ages. — Isaac Mayer Wise
The trouble with us is that the ghetto of the Middle Ages and the children of the twentieth century have to live under one roof. — Anzia Yezierska
At the end of the Middle Ages, nobody would ever have expected the monasteries to vanish from the scene within a generation - yet they… — Rowan Williams
Since at least the Middle Ages, philosophers and philologists have dreamed of curing natural languages of their flaws by constructing entirely new idioms according to… — Joshua Foer
LORE, n. Learning --particularly that sort which is not derived from a regular course of instruction but comes of the reading of occult books, or… — Ambrose Bierce
Is enough to look at the Middle Ages, at the Inquisition and on the ultra religious societies that, through their fanaticism, make an enemy of… — Sorin Cerin
In the middle ages, people took potions for their ailments. In the 19th century they took snake oil. Citizens of today's shiny, technological age are… — Charles Krauthammer
Of all the barbarous middle ages, that which is most barbarous is the middle age of man! it is - I really scarce know what;… — Lord Byron
In the Middle Ages could not Christians be united, nowadays, it is Europe that can not be united. As I see it, nothing has changed — Mattias Konradsson
The masturbation myth is absolutely responsible for more unwanted pregnancies and diseases than anything else on the planet earth. During the middle ages, dictator-like religious… — Johnny Luckett
The middle ages showed us the results of thinking without experimentation, our present century shows us what experimentation without thinking leads to. — Arthur Schopenhauer
If anything, todays patterns are beginning to resemble the multi-layered complexities of the high middle ages, and not simply as played out in Europe. The… — John Ralston Saul

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