Medieval famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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Nothing but mountains filled with barbarous ethnics with views as medieval as their muskets, and unspeakably cruel too
-- Alexander Cockburn -
Faith in the possibility of science, generated antecedently to the development of modern scientific theory, is an unconscious derivative from medieval theology.
-- Alfred North Whitehead -
We can appreciate but not really understand the medieval town. We cannot comprehend its compactness, the contiguity of all its buildings as a single uninterrupted whole.
-- Arthur Erickson -
We are living in modern times throughout the world and yet are dominated by medieval minds.
-- Eqbal Ahmad -
There are some examples of medieval kings who were terrible human beings but were nevertheless good kings.
-- George R. R. Martin -
There may have been disillusionments in the lives of the medieval saints, but they would scarcely have been better pleased if they could have foreseen that their names would be associated nowadays chiefly with racehorses and the cheaper clarets.
-- Hector Hugh Munro -
But no, I don't think I'm particularly drawn to the period roles or the medieval roles.
-- Hugh Dancy -
Opinion is the companion of probability within the medieval epistemology.
-- Ian Hacking -
The ultimate binding element in the medieval order was subordination to the divine will and its earthly representatives, notably the pope.
-- Irving Babbitt -
with the breakdown of the medieval system, the gods of chaos, lunacy, and bad taste gained ascendancy.
-- John Kennedy Toole -
I went and looked at one of these great cathedrals one day, and I was blown away by it. From there I became interested in how cathedrals were built, and from there I became interested in the society that built the medieval cathedral. It occurred to me at some point that the story of the building of a cathedral could be a great popular novel.
-- Ken Follett -
Afghanistan is a rural nation, where 85 percent of people live in the countryside. And out there it's very, very conservative, very tribal - almost medieval.
-- Khaled Hosseini -
The notion that human life is sacred just because it is human life is medieval.
-- Peter Singer -
Maimed but still magnificent... Europe's mightiest medieval cathedral.
-- R. W. Apple -
It is in the fusion of autochthonous Jews with semi-Jewish Khazars and Kabars in the tenth century that we must seek the earliest demographic basis of the Jewish population of medieval Hungary.
-- Raphael Patai -
In medieval times, artists had patrons that supported them and this is a similar thing, ... We're basically saying, 'Wouldn't you like to be a part of this'
-- Steve Young -
To the medieval mind the possibility of doubt did not exist.
-- William Manchester -
There was a time in medieval England when they had wandering minstrels ... A wandering minstrel would have been Frank Sinatra's counterpart had he lived during the time of Henry II in 1190 or 1180.
-- Frank Sinatra, Jr. -
I've always been interested in a lot of the medieval art portraying people being tormented.
-- Jack Larson -
The medieval mystics say the true image and the true real met once and for all on the cross: once and for all: and yet they still meet daily.
-- Madeleine L'Engle -
Consumerism has become a new religion, complete with its high priests at Which? and its fatwas against anyone with the temerity to try to sell anything at more than cost price ... It is a depressingly medieval outlook on economic life.
-- Sean O'Grady -
In Florence, classical buildings sit against medieval buildings. It's that contrast we like.
-- Richard Rogers -
I'm sure you can even find ménage à trois in medieval tales.
-- Louis Garrel
