Consciousness Quote by James David Lewis-Williams

“And the wave of tenderness and pity that at once filled his heart was not the stirring of the soul that leads the son…

— Albert Camus

“The picture of change in human society that emerges from this recent research throws new light on that aspect of the Transition that has…

— James David Lewis-Williams

“Perhaps the most striking feature of the west European Upper Palaeolithic, one on which many writers comment, is a sharp increase in the rate…

— James David Lewis-Williams

“To understand the ‘wounded men’ of Upper Palaeolithic art, I now consider somatic hallucinations; these include attenuation of the body and limbs, polymelia (having…

— James David Lewis-Williams

And in Clonmacnois they laid the men of Teffia,

— Angus O'Gillan (fl 14th Century

“Burials in Cahokia could be astonishingly elaborate. In one, a man was buried on a bed of twenty thousand beads of shell. Nearby three…

— Jake Page

In France, the people were the sport of a king's caprice. Everywhere was the shadow of the Bastille. It fell upon the sunniest field,…

— Robert Green Ingersoll

“Genetic palaeontology brings clarity to a field of near-medieval confusion. The”

— Stephen Oppenheimer

In France, you have 900 years of romantic love going back to the troubadours and minstrels that wrote stories of Lancelot and Guinevere. You…

— Marilyn Yalom

Pale death, with impartial step, knocks at the hut of the poor and the towers of kings. [Lat., Pallida mors aequo pulsat pede pauperum…

— Horace

“The Comtesse's fellow prisoners in this antechamber to death were characteristic of the ill-assorted gatherings thrown together in Revolutionary prisons: duchesses and prostitutes, actresses…

— Stanley Loomis

“For the entire AEF, the campaigns at Cantigny, Belleau Wood, Château-Thierry, and the Ourcq started to approach the bloodletting of past western front battles,…

— Joseph E. Persico