Middle Ages Quotes
But in the Middle Ages people were convinced there were witches. They looked for them and they certainly found them.
It seems to me that since the Middle Ages (it's not a Reformation thing), all that stuff about Jews and Gentiles coming together in Christ was just screened out.
Since the Middle Ages, people have been writing about angels. Angelology was actually at one point a scholastic discipline.
Modern as the style of Pascal's writing is, his thought is deeply impregnated with the spirit of the Middle Ages. He belonged, almost equally, to the future and to the past.
Jogging, I believe they call it. It seems to be an epidemic psychological illness afflicting Americans these days. A form of masochism, like the flagellantes in the Middle Ages.
When future historians look back on our way of curing inflation...they'll probably compare it to bloodletting in the Middle Ages.
Since at least the Middle Ages, philosophers and philologists have dreamed of curing natural languages of their flaws by constructing entirely new idioms according to orderly, logical principles.
We cannot hand our faith to one another.... Even in the Middle Ages, when faith was theoretically uniform, it was always practically individual.
In the days of Moses and the prophets such a man would have been counted among the wise men of the land; in the Middle Ages he would have been burned at the stake.
Is is seldom possible to say of the medievals that they *always* did one thing and *never* another
The day will come when you need them to respect you, even fear you a little. Laughter is poison to fear.
