“...belief has a second edge. If there are ten thousand medieval peasants who create vampires by believing them real, there may be one - probably a child - who will imagine the stake necessary to kill it. But a stake is only stupid wood; the mind is the mallet which drives it home.” IfsMindBelieveMayChildrenRealHomeBeliefImagineStupidThousandTenEdgesWoodsVampireStakesPeasantsMedieval Author:Stephen King
“The church has contributed nothing to civilization. It has progressed somewhat, and it has become a little more decent, in reflection of the movements of civilization that have taken place outside of the church and usually in the face of the strong opposition of the church. But the church has always resisted the process of civilization. It has struggled to the last ditch, by fair means and foul, to preserve as long as it could the vestiges of ancient and medieval theology, with all the puerile moralities and harsh customs and medieval styles of belief.” MeanLittlesLongLastsFacesBeliefStrongProcessChurchTakenAtheismStyleMovementMoralityCivilizationReflectionFairsAncientTheologyPreservesDecentOppositionCustomsHarshMedievalFoul Author:E. Haldeman-Julius
“We exist in a bizarre combination of Stone Age emotions, medieval beliefs, and god-like technology.” AgeBeliefEmotionTechnologyStonesCombinationBizarreMedievalStone Age Author:E. O. Wilson
“Our belief in salvation through the market is very much in the Utopian tradition. The economists and managers are the servants of God. Like the medieval scholastics, their only job is to uncover the divine plan. They could never create or stop it. At most they might aspire to small alterations.” MightJobsBeliefPlansDivineTraditionSalvationManagersServantAspireEconomistMedievalUtopianServant Of GodAlterationsScholastics Book:The Unconscious Civilization Source: The Unconscious Civilization