Medieval Quotes
Medieval Quote of the day
Wisdom and peace come when you start living the life the creator intended for you.
We exist in a bizarre combination of Stone Age emotions, medieval beliefs, and god-like technology.
The Study of philosophy is not that we may know what men have thought, but what the truth of things is.
Our culture will become like it was during the medieval times when there truly was a cultural elite. The rest of the people will just watch television, which will be their only frame of reference.
My view is that climate changes have happened in the last 80 years, that is, the world has got a little bit warmer, although not as warm as it has been in Medieval times, or the Bronze Age.
There once was a time when all people believed in God and the church ruled. This time was called the Dark Ages.
Ancient metaphysics underwent many changes at the hands of medieval thinkers who brought it in line with the dominant religious and theological movements of their day.
We are living in modern times throughout the world and yet are dominated by medieval minds.
I get fixated when I'm bleeding -- I can see why they went in for blood-letting in the medieval times because it makes you feel a bit better. When I cut myself, the drama of it calms me down.
The medieval Church believed that the resurrection of Christ marked a new time for all of humanity.
with the breakdown of the medieval system, the gods of chaos, lunacy, and bad taste gained ascendancy.
Bologna is the best city in Italy for food and has the least number of tourists. With its medieval beauty, it has it all.
No medieval monarch in the whole of British history ever had such power as every modern British Prime Minister has in his or her hands. Nor does any American President have power approaching this
We have fought long and hard to escape from medieval superstition. I, for one, do not wish to go back.
When you get a new worldview you get a new world. It's like the shift from medieval Christianity to the Renaissance and enlightenment.
The technologies which have had the most profound effects on human life are usually simple.
I think five percent of all songs can be love songs, and another five percent can be miscellaneous or political, but the rest should just be about medieval feminists.
the wealthy ... live in marble mausoleums surrounded by the suspicions and neuroses that have replaced the medieval moats which once isolated so-called aristocrats from reality.
Today the large organization is lord and master, and most of its employees have been desensitized much as were the medieval peasants who never knew they were serfs.
Krakow is one of my favorite places on earth. It is a medieval city full of young people. A wonderful, striking combination.
As the medieval mind blamed God for human suffering, so the modern mind blames 'the system' for the industrial blight and plague of technology.
Baseball and cricket are beautiful and highly stylized medieval war substitutes, chess made flesh, a mixture of proud chivalry and base-in both senses-greed.
The destruction of the inducement to invest by an excessive liquidity-preference was the outstanding evil, the prime impediment to the growth of wealth, in the ancient and medieval worlds.
If ever there was a slamming of the door in the face of constructive investigation, it is the word miracle. To a medieval peasant, a radio would have seemed like a miracle.
Our horizon is the creation of a noble society to which, like the medieval builder of those glorious cathedrals, you will have added your conception, your artful piece of stone.
The medieval hall house was very primitive when it became the characteristic form of dwelling of the landowner of the Middle Ages.
In Florence, classical buildings sit against medieval buildings. It's that contrast we like.
Typography fostered the modern idea of individuality, but it destroyed the medieval sense of community and integration.
Game of Thrones' is a fantasy show not dedicated to any specific time, but it seems to exist in sort of a 1400s medieval fantasy world, and in that setting, I wouldn't have had a six-pack.
No student of Chinese history can say that the Chinese are incapable of religious experience, even when judged by the standards of medieval Europe or pious India.
The medieval university looked backwards; it professed to be a storehouse of old knowledge. The modern university looks forward, and is a factory of new knowledge.
The ultimate binding element in the medieval order was subordination to the divine will and its earthly representatives, notably the pope.
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.
I'd like to do a story about the medieval ages where in every scene you'd sort of feel that you were in the 12th century. That would be great to get that feeling.
Chemotherapy is just medieval. It's such a blunt instrument. We're going to look back on it like we do the dark ages.
Every European goes on the streets and sees medieval churches. Not if you live in Indianapolis. The most exciting letters I received were from people in places like that.
Like fundamentalist Judaism and medieval Christianity, Islam is totalist. That is to say, it makes a total claim on the individual.
The track record of economists in predicting events is monstrously bad. It is beyond simplification; it is like medieval medicine.
The modern geography of the brain has a deliciously antiquated feel to it - rather like a medieval map with the known world encircled by terra incognito where monsters roam.
Talk. I'll just wait' shall I? Because my mission to save this town is of no importance whatsoever next to your girl talk."- Myrnin "Oh, shut up, you medieval drama queen" - Claire
