Blood Quote by Maxim Gorky

“the people were steeped in the crepuscular gloom of antiquity; and were wise with all manner of accumulated lore; and were subtle in the…

— Clark Ashton Smith

“At Gabriel College there was a very holy object on the high altar of the Oratory, covered with a black velvet cloth... At the…

— Philip Pullman

“The pogroms in Mainz, Worms, and Trier were an early expression of a new, more militant Christianity. The Civitas Dei—or God State—grew out of…

— John Kelly

“I did not know, however, that ancient glories imply, at least in the middle of the present century, present fatigue and, quite probably, paranoia;…

— James Baldwin

Those who were skillful in Anatomy among the Ancients, concluded from the outward and inward Make of an Human Body, that it was the…

— Joseph Addison

“Live in obscurity--lathe biōsas (λάθε βιώσας)”

— Epicurus

“You see, the foundations of our culture were laid in classical Greece, where physical beauty and the body were celebrated. But our culture is…

— Ted Chiang

“You Christians studied them,” Settembrini exclaimed, “studied the classical poets and philosophers until you broke out in a sweat, attempted to make their precious…

— Thomas Mann

Any idea that is held in the mind that is either feared or revered will, begin at once to clothe itself in the most…

— Andrew Carnegie

“Beneath the pseudo-scientific terminology one can in each case recognize a phantasy of which almost every element is to be found in phantasies which…

— Norman Cohn

“Ruins and basilicas, palaces and colossi, set in the midst of a sordid present, where all that was living and warm-blooded seemed sunk in…

— George Eliot

“The turmoil and dislocations confronting present-day society will not be solved until both the scientific and religious genius of the human race are fully…

— Baha'i International Community