Medieval Quotes

We are living in modern times throughout the world and yet are dominated by medieval minds.

with the breakdown of the medieval system, the gods of chaos, lunacy, and bad taste gained ascendancy.

We have seen many other not just writers and intellectuals, but including writers and intellectuals in the Muslim world being attacked and murdered by Islamic fanatics, accused of exactly the same things that I was, these medieval crimes of apostasy And heresy, but then broadening from that into a broader attack on all of us.

In Florence, classical buildings sit against medieval buildings. It's that contrast we like.

We've got paleolithic emotions, medieval institutions, and god-like technologies.

To the medieval mind the possibility of doubt did not exist.

Maimed but still magnificent... Europe's mightiest medieval cathedral.

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.

Like fundamentalist Judaism and medieval Christianity, Islam is totalist. That is to say, it makes a total claim on the individual.

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.

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.

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.

If all were equalized by death, as the medieval idea constantly emphasized, was it not possible that inequalities on earth were contrary to the will of God?

If I can't face my accusers, that's a joke. We did that in medieval times.

I'm sure you can even find ménage à trois in medieval tales.

Nothing but mountains filled with barbarous ethnics with views as medieval as their muskets, and unspeakably cruel too.

Economics, we learn in the history of thought, only became a science by escaping from the casuistry and moralizing of medieval thought.

I've always been interested in a lot of the medieval art portraying people being tormented.

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'

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.

You have people chopping off heads of Christians and others. Not since medieval times has anyone seen anything like this.

Faith in the possibility of science, generated antecedently to the development of modern scientific theory, is an unconscious derivative from medieval theology.

Opinion is the companion of probability within the medieval epistemology.

There are some examples of medieval kings who were terrible human beings but were nevertheless good kings.

Religion is such a medieval idea. Don't get me started. I have thought about every facet of religion, and I can't buy any of it.

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.

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.

But no, I don't think I'm particularly drawn to the period roles or the medieval roles.

I listen to a lot of medieval music.

The 'gallows' are not only a symbol of death, but also a symbol of cruelty, terror and irreverence for life; the common denominator of primitive savagery, medieval fanaticism and modern totalitarianism.