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During the Middle Ages they understood that words accompanied by imagery are much more memorable. By making the margins of a book colorful and beautiful, illuminations help make the text unforgettable. It’s unfortunate that we’ve lost the art of illumination (Middle Ages Quotes)
Generals think war should be waged like the tourneys of the Middle Ages. I have no use for knights; I need revolutionaries (Middle Ages Quotes)
The philosophers of the Middle Ages demonstrated both that the Earth did not exist and also that it was flat. Today they are still arguing about whether the world exists, but they no longer dispute about whether it is flat (Middle Ages Quotes)
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 (Middle Ages Quotes)
In the Middle Ages, everything bad was the work of the devil, everything good, the work of God. Today, the French see everything in reverse and blame the Germans for it (Middle Ages Quotes)
The Middle Ages hangs over history’s belt like a beer belly. It is too late now for aerobic dancing or cottage cheese lunches to reduce the Middle Ages. History will have to wear size 48 shorts forever (Middle Ages Quotes)
Spiritual sloth, or acedia, was known as The Sin of the Middle Ages. It’s the sin of my middle age, too (Middle Ages Quotes)
But in the Middle Ages people were convinced there were witches. They looked for them and they certainly found them (Middle Ages Quotes)
Strange how blind people are! They are horrified by the torture chambers of the Middle Ages, but their arsenals fill them with pride! (Middle Ages Quotes)
For three hundred years we have had our focus on the individual. We have distinguished him from the objective world as the Middle Ages did not think of doing. We have given him the world and the universe as a playground for exploration and discovery (Middle Ages Quotes)
It’s like suddenly in the Middle Ages, people figured men should be in charge of women’s bodies since they were in charge of pretty much everything else (Middle Ages Quotes)
Your best work involves timing. If someone wrote the best hip hop song of all time in the Middle Ages, he had bad timing (Middle Ages Quotes)
Rioting has always been a London tradition. It has been since the early Middle Ages. There’s hardly a spate of years that goes by without violent rioting of one kind or another. They happen so frequently that they are almost part of London’s texture (Middle Ages Quotes)
Ah, well, during the Middle Ages, religion was often able to redeem art. Today, however, art is about the only thing that can redeem religion, and the clerics will never forgive us for that (Middle Ages Quotes)
There happened in the Middle Ages what has happened so often since then. Those who were the beneficiaries of the established order were bent on defending it, not so much, perhaps, because it guaranteed their interests, as because it seemed to them indispensable to the preservation of society (Middle Ages Quotes)
The fundamental issue, when it comes to Europe’s future, will be whether and how we manage to transfer the ideals that once made Europe great - especially its Christian roots - into today’s changed world. No one wants to return to the Middle Ages (Middle Ages Quotes)
Everybody in mathematics had given up for 100 years or 200 years the idea that you could from pictures, from looking at pictures, find new ideas. That was the case long ago in the Middle Ages, in the Renaissance, in later periods, but then mathematicians had become very abstract (Middle Ages Quotes)
The Jews were the money-lenders of the Middle Ages so there’s a stereotype of the slightly or more than slightly dishonest business man and this stereotype covers and obscures all the facts. (Middle Ages Quotes)
Real socialism is inside man. It wasn’t born with Marx. It was in the communes of Italy in the Middle Ages. You can’t say it is finished (Middle Ages Quotes)
We owe to the Middle Ages the two worst inventions of humanity - romantic love and gunpowder (Middle Ages Quotes)
During the Middle Ages, Jews were members of a semi-independent polity within a larger polity (Middle Ages Quotes)
I don't know what falling in love for me is. The concept of romantic love arose in the Middle Ages. Now remember, the Arabs don't even have a word for love-that is, a word for love apart from physical attraction or sex. And this separation of love and sex is a western concept, a Christian concept. As to what falling in love means, I'm uncertain. Love, well, it means simply physical attraction and liking a person at the same time (Middle Ages Quotes)
I attribute the quarrelsome nature of the Middle Ages young men entirely to the want of the soothing weed (Middle Ages Quotes)
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 (Middle Ages Quotes)
What progress we are making. In the Middle Ages they would have burned me. Now they are content with burning my books (Middle Ages Quotes)
The tendency to gather and to breed philosophers in universities does not belong to ages of free and humane reflection: it is scholastic and proper to the Middle Ages and to Germany (Middle Ages Quotes)
In the middle ages people were tourists because of their religion, whereas now they are tourists because tourism is their religion (Middle Ages Quotes)
In antiquity slaves were, in all honesty called slaves. In the middle ages, they took the name of serfs. Nowadays they are called wage earners (Middle Ages Quotes)
We thought of universities as the cathedrals of the modern world. In the middle ages, the cathedral was the center and symbol of the city. In the modern world, its place could be taken by the university (Middle Ages Quotes)
Morally, the world is both better and worse than it was. We are worse off than in the middle ages, or the 17th and 18th centuries, in that we have the atomic menace (Middle Ages Quotes)
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