Ancient Quote by Walter Pater

“Later times have laid all the blame upon the Goths and Vandals, but, however unwilling the partizans of the Christian system may be to…

— Thomas Paine

The Church which taught men not to keep faith with heretics, had no claim to toleration.

— John Locke

“Let me repeat: the stakes are high. We must confront one of the most massive pseudo-evidences in recent intellectual history: the belief, rampant in…

— Peter Sloterdijk

The Reformation did not directly touch the question of the true character of God's church.

— John Nelson Darby

“In the West, the great problem that was created for Christianity from the 17th century onward and even earlier during the Renaissance was that…

— Seyyed Hossein Nasr

It could plausibly be argued that far from Christian theology having hampered the study of nature for fifteen hundred years, it was Greek corruptions…

— Mary Hesse

“Our accepted chronology of the ancient church is wrong: ancient Semitic Christianity dies out not in the fourth century, but in the fourteenth.8”

— Philip Jenkins

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

So great was the preference given to sacred over profane learning that Christianity had been in existence fifteen hundred years, and had not produced…

— John William Draper

There never has been a period of history, in which the Common Law did not recognize Christianity as lying at its foundation.

— Joseph Story

“Still, Rome was horrified by all this. The Vatican had “Christianized” the teachings of Aristotle, and not Plato. It preached that redemption could come…

— Benjamin Blech

It was not just the Church that resisted the heliocentrism of Copernicus.

— Tycho Brahe