Quotes of Medieval - somelinesforyou

“ Because a given era lacked a given body of information, we feel that its whole consciousness was naive. We can, therefore, sniff at, say, twelfth-century imagery of evil along with twelfth-century notions as to the shape of the solar system. The idea is that, having come upon information that supervenes the medieval cosmology, we can thereby dismiss all medieval notions as merely medieval. ”

- Thomas Howard

“ 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. ”

- Ralph Nader

“ But now I know that it is very important that all buildings should be consistent, that this is the quality of the Gothic cathedral, for instance, that we like. ”

- Minoru Yamasaki

“ O! more than Gothic ignorance. ”

- Henry Fielding

“ I hate the word gothic but I would like to try doing something like that. A gothic sound, not rock, but gothic. There's a difference. ”

- Kelly Osbourne

“ The principle of the Gothic architecture is infinity made imaginable. ”

- Samuel Taylor Coleridge

“ Opera, next to Gothic architecture, is one of the strangest inventions of Western man. It could not have been foreseen by any logical process. ”

- Kenneth Clark

“ Opera, next to Gothic architecture, is one of the strangest inventions of Western man. It could not have been foreseen by any logical process. ”

- Lord Clark Kenneth

“ That is a Medieval way of drawing history, in which they do not respect the law and want the rest of the world to respect the law. That's not possible. ”

- Emir Kusturica

“ 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. ”

- Adrienne Clarkson

“ 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. ”

- Thomas H. Huxley

“ As to honor — you know — it's a very fine mediaeval inheritance which women never got hold of. It wasn't theirs. ”

- Joseph Conrad

“ A school without football is in danger of deteriorating into a medieval study hall. ”

- Vince Lombardi

“ Like medieval peasants, computer manufacturers and millions of users are locked in a seemingly eternal lease with their evil landlord, who comes around every two years to collect billions of dollars of taxes in return for mediocre services. ”

- Mark Harris

“ Comics, which are really best described as an arrangement of images in a sequence that tell a story - an idea - is a very old form of graphic communication. It began with the hieroglyphics in Egypt, it first appeared in a recognizable form in the Medieval times as copper plates produced by the Catholic church to tell morality stories. ”

- Will Eisner
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