Permission Quote by Mark Twain

I don't use the word 'renaissance'. It's flawed because in Latin, it's tied to the rebirth of Christ... It's a word that's tied to…

— John Ralston Saul

The Renaissance had resulted in the emancipation of the individual, in making him feel that the universe had no other purpose than his happiness.…

— Bernard Berenson

“René d’Anjou—"Good King René" as he was known—was one of the most important figures in European culture during the years immediately preceding the Renaissance.”

— Michael Baigent

I would certainly never consider myself a Renaissance Man; I'm not fit to look at the dust from the chariot wheels of many of…

— Alexander McCall Smith

The term 'renaissance man' is always bandied about. I don't think that applies to me. You think about Leonardo da Vinci, and he was…

— Moby

Why alhough the Renaissance eventuall became a Euope wide intellectual and artistic movement, and why did it developed first and most distinctively in Italy?…

— Brandon McCaw

“Via the mediation of the Enlightenment, this movement had changed from a hobby among a tiny literate elite and their secretaries, an ostentatious amusement…

— Peter Sloterdijk

The Renaissance was a time of mercenary soldiers, ours is a time of mercenary labor.

— Eric Hoffer

I admire most of all The Renaissance Man, and if it can be said without pretentiousness, I like to think of myself as one,…

— Lucius Beebe

The Renaissance took place in chaos and plague.

— Shiva Ayyadurai

I think he [King Edward] was a modernizer who was a new thinker. The things he intended to do - unify the country, expand…

— Max Irons

It all bottomed out with the Renaissance Period. Ren-ais-sance. Thats Renaissance, FRENCH for re-birth. Re-nais-sance. And thats why most of the Renaissance happened slap…

— Eddie Izzard