Renaissance Quotes

161 Renaissance quotes by 145 unique authors

The British philosopher Bertrand Russell said that philosophy went downhill after Democritus and did not recover until the Renaissance. — Leon M. Lederman
If we believe in the rebirth of our civilization... then clearly this renaissance must begin in the chambers of our own hearts... We cannot wait… — Georg Feuerstein
Muslims all over the world are looking with high expectations toward the ummah community in the United States and Canada. Its dynamism, fresh approach, enlightened… — Unknown Author
Development of Western science is based on two great achievements: the invention of the formal logical system (in Euclidean geometry) by the Greek philosophers, and… — Albert Einstein
We have a great obligation not only to look after our own interests, but to engage and to make sure that this meeting is at… — Klaus Schwab
As we mourn President Mandela’s passing we must ask ourselves the fundamental question - what shall we do to respond to the tasks of building… — Thabo Mbeki
The three values which men held for centuries and which have now collapsed are: mysticism, collectivism, altruism. Mysticism - as a cultural power - died… — Ayn Rand
Warhol turned to photographs of stars, as the Renaissance turned to antiquities, to find images of gods. — David Sylvester
Medical research in the twentieth century mostly takes place in the lab; in the Renaissance, though, researchers went first and foremost to the library to… — Peter Lewis Allen
People think my career started when I sent that tape to Renaissance. I’d actually been working hard for seven years before I got to that… — John Digweed
People nowadays like to be together not in the old-fashioned way of, say, mingling on the piazza of an Italian Renaissance city, but, instead, huddled… — J. G. Ballard
Until the June 1967 war I was completely caught up in the life of a young professor of English. Beginning in 1968, I started to… — Edward Said
I am what I have always been: the last Renaissance man, if I may be allowed to say so. — Hermann Goring
If theory is the role of the architect, then such beautiful proofs are the role of the craftsman. Of course, as with the great renaissance… — Michael Atiyah
National liberation, national renaissance, the restoration of nationhood to the people, commonwealth: whatever may be the headings used or the new formulas introduced, decolonization is… — Frantz Fanon
The only hope is that our civilization will collapse at a certain point, as always happens in history. Then, out of barbarity, a renaissance. — Pierre Schaeffer
Great effort is required to arrest decay and restore vigor. One must exercise proper deliberation, plan carefully before making a move, and be alert in… — Horace
I like things that are kind of eclectic, when one thing doesn't go with another. That's why I love Rome. The town itself is that… — Giambattista Valli
Eric Walrond, handsome, cosmopolitan, and beguilingly enigmatic, may have been the most promising literary talent of the Harlem Renaissance.... James Davis's finely written, beautifully paced… — David Levering Lewis
A housing renaissance has begun. This may be hard to believe after the dizzying, six-year-long crash in home sales, construction and house prices. But housing… — Mark Zandi
Shakespeare wouldn't have been any good if he'd stayed in Stratford. He had to go to London to be bathed in the full current of… — John Dos Passos
In essence the Renaissance was simply the green end of one of civilization's hardest winters. — John Fowles
The Renaissance of the fifteenth century was, in many things, great rather by what it designed then by what it achieved. — Walter Pater
We have entered, almost without noticing, an age of exploration and discovery unparalleled since the Renaissance. — Carl Sagan
We may affirm, then, that the main drift of the later Renaissance was away from a humanism that favored a free expansion toward a humanism… — Irving Babbitt

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