Renaissance Quotes

161 Renaissance quotes by 145 unique authors

No account of the Renaissance can be complete without some notice of the attempt made by certain Italian scholars of the fifteenth century to reconcile… — Walter Pater
The mystical life is the centre of all that I do and all that I think and all that I write. . . . I… — William Butler Yeats
The renaissance of Christian philosophy has been accompanied by a resurgence of interest in natural theology, that branch of theology that seeks to prove God's… — William Lane Craig
Christopher Lynch has made the best and the first careful translation of Machiavelli's Art of War. With useful notes, an excellent introduction, an interpretive essay,… — Harvey Mansfield
Being a Negro writer these days is a racket and I'm going to make the most of it while it lasts. About twice a year… — Wallace Thurman
I'm looking to evolve the concept of the new renaissance artist, taking the world by storm through the art of public display and demonstration, with… — Perry Farrell
The law of love and compassion for all living creatures is again a doctrine to which we are all too ready to pay slip service.… — U Thant
All my life I’ve pursued the perfect red. I can never get painters to mix it for me. It’s exactly as if I’d said, ‘I… — Diana Vreeland
People will get tired of overly retouched images soon and they'll want something different. If people have too much reality, they want fantasy. What matters… — David LaChapelle
I feel, sometimes, as the renaissance man must have felt in finding new riches at every point and in the certainty that unexplored areas of… — Polykarp Kusch
The Renaissance of Europe did not take place in the 15th century. Rather it began when Europe learned from the culture of the Arabs. The… — Robert Briffault
Renaissance cowboy/raconteur Pop Wagner ...deadpan funny ...his presence is like meeting Woody Guthrie and Will Rogers riding a single, many colored horse. Pop is a… — Ron Miles
Actually I like the idea of being a Renaissance hack. If tombstones were still in style, I would want to have the two words chiseled… — Dennis Flanagan
The traditional doctrine of man and not the measurement of skulls and footprints is the key for the understanding of that anthropos who, despite the… — Seyyed Hossein Nasr
The Renaissance… was based on a new idea of the importance of the individual. But this was a fragile foundation, because individuals depended on constant… — Theodore Zeldin
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
We need a renaissance of wonder. — E. Merrill Root
A renaissance in cellular biology has recently revealed the molecular mechanisms by which thoughts and perceptions directly influence gene activity and cell behavior...Energy psychology, through… — Bruce H. Lipton
I admire most of all The Renaissance Man, and if it can be said without pretentiousness, I like to think of myself as one, at… — Lucius Beebe
Fascism was an explosion against intolerable conditions, against remediable wrongs which the old world failed to remedy. It was a movement to secure national renaissance… — Oswald Mosley
Implosion is no invention in the conventional sense, but rather the renaissance of ancient knowledge, lost over the course of time. — Viktor Schauberger
Humanity is looking for a new story. The one it has embraced since the Renaissance is no longer viable. Despite all of its positive contributions… — Edmund Bourne
It's a Renaissance, or put more simply, some you win, some you lose — Des Lynam
December 21, 2012 represents a unique opportunity for renaissance, renewal and reinvention that people have waited for for centuries. — Alberto Villoldo
Seance to renaissance. So it begins — Marilyn Manson

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