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“In the West there has always been the attempt to try make the religious building, whether it's a Medieval or Renaissance church, an eternal object for the celebration of God. The material chosen, such as stone, brick, or concrete, is meant to eternally preserve what is inside.”

Trying Church Religious Objects Building Materials Eternal Stones West Chosen Preserves Celebration Concrete Bricks Medieval Renaissance

Author:Tadao Ando

“The top 400 people own more wealth now than the bottom 185 million Americans taken together. That is a medieval structure.”

People Together Wealth Millions Taken Structure Bottom Medieval

Author:Gar Alperovitz

“In Technologized Desire, the cultural pathologies that mark the panic ecstasy and terminal doom of the posthuman condition are powerfully rehearsed in the language of science fiction. Here, images of prosthetic subjects, zombies, cut-ups and armies of the medieval dead actually slip off the pages of literature to become the terminal hauntology of these technologized times. Technologized Desire is nothing less than a brilliant data screen of future memories. Read it well: it's a survival guide for bodies flatlined by the speed of accelerating technology.”

“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.”

Pieces Creation Stones Noble Glorious Horizon Conception Medieval Builder Cathedrals

Author:Adrienne Clarkson

“No student of Chinese history can say that the Chinese are incapable of religious experience, even when judged by the standards of medieval Europe or pious India.”

Religious Students Standards Europe India Chinese Judged Incapable Medieval Pious Religious Experience Religious Love Medieval Europe

Author:Hu Shih

“The medieval doctors of divinity who did not pretend to settle how many angels could dance on the point of a needle cut a very poor figure as far as romantic credulity is concerned beside the modern physicists who have settled to the billionth of a millimetre every movement and position in the dance of the electrons. Not for worlds would I question the precise accuracy of these calculations or the existence of electrons (whatever they may be). The fate of Joan is a warning to me against such heresy.”

Source: The Complete Prefaces: 1914-1929

“Every European goes on the streets and sees medieval churches. Not if you live in Indianapolis. The most exciting letters I received were from people in places like that.”

People Ifs Church Streets Goes On Letters Exciting Medieval Indianapolis

Author:Umberto Eco

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

Modern Possibility Theory Development Theology Unconscious Medieval Derivatives Scientific Theory

Book:Science and the Modern World

Source: Science and the Modern World

“The medieval hall house was very primitive when it became the characteristic form of dwelling of the landowner of the Middle Ages.”

Age Form House Middle Characteristics Halls Primitive Middle Ages Medieval Dwelling

Book:The House: Its Origins and Evolution

Source: The House: Its Origins and Evolution

“Satire must always accompany any free society. It is an absolute necessity. Even in the most repressive medieval kingdoms, they understood the need for the court jester, the one soul allowed to tell the truth through laughter. It is, in many ways, the most powerful form of free speech because it is aimed at those in power, or those whose ideas would spread hate. It is the canary in the coalmine, a cultural thermometer, and it always has to push, push, push the boundaries of society to see how much it’s grown.”

“Satire must always accompany any free society. It is an absolute necessity. Even in the most repressive medieval kingdoms, they understood the need for the court jester, the one soul allowed to tell the truth through laughter.”

Needs Soul Laughter Understood Absolutes Court Kingdoms Telling The Truth Satire Medieval Free Society Accompany Jester Court Jester

Author:Joe Randazzo

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

Thinking Roles Periods Medieval

Author:Hugh Dancy

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

Stills Europe Magnificent Medieval Cathedrals Medieval Europe

Author:R. W. Apple

“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.”

Whole Building Appreciate Towns Medieval

Author:Arthur Erickson

“Now, the good of business is put above anything else, as corporations have become the new ruling body. Most decisions seem to be made like ones of a medieval king: whatever makes profit while ignoring and repressing the truth about whatever suffering it may cause (like pop music, for that matter).”

May Made Matter Body Seems Suffering Causes Decision Kings Profit Pops Corporations Ruling Medieval Pop Music

Author:Julian Casablancas

“The technologies which have had the most profound effects on human life are usually simple. A good example of a simple technology with profound historical consequences is hay. Nobody knows who invented hay, the idea of cutting grass in the autumn and storing it in large enough quantities to keep horses and cows alive through the winter. All we know is that the technology of hay was unknown to the Roman Empire but was known to every village of medieval Europe. Like many other crucially important technologies, hay emerged anonymously during the so-called Dark Ages.”

“A glance at the history of European poetry is enough to inform us that rhyme itself is not indispensable. Latin poetry in the classical age had no use for it, and the kind of Latin poetry that does rhyme - as for instance the medieval Carmina Burana - tends to be somewhat crude stuff in comparison with the classical verse that doesn't.”

Kind Doe Enough Use Age Stuff Instance Comparison Poetry Is Latin Verses Rhyme Indispensable Glances Medieval Crude

Author:James Fenton

“Icon of Prague, the medieval bridge crossed the Vltava between Old Town and the Little Quarter. Gothic bridge towers rose on both sides, and the whole span — pedestrian-only — was lined by monumental statues of saints.”

Littles Whole Sides Towns Rose Saint Bridges Quarters Towers Both Sides Statues Gothic Medieval Icons Pedestrians Prague

Author:Laini Taylor

“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.”

Has Beens Today Lord Masters Organization Slavery Employee Peasants Medieval Serfs

Author:Ralph Nader

“To cure jealousy is to see it for what it is, a dissatisfaction with self, an impossible claim that one should be at once Rose Bowl princess, medieval scholar, Saint Joan, Milly Theale, Temple Drake, Eleanor of Aquitaine, one”

Should Self Impossible Claims Rose Saint Cures Temples Princess Scholar Bowls Medieval Dissatisfaction Eleanor

Author:Joan Didion

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

Individual Christianity Claims Islam Judaism Medieval Fundamentalist

Author:Martin Amis

“They have a lot of trouble with pronunciation, because they can't move their jaw muscles, because of malnutrition caused by wisely refusing to eat English food, much of which was designed and manufactured in medieval times during the reign of King Walter the Mildly Disturbed.”

Funny Moving Trouble Kings Humorous England Muscles Reign Medieval Disturbed Malnutrition Pronunciation Medieval Times

Book:The World According to Dave Barry

Source: The World According to Dave Barry

“I will try not to panic, to keep my standard of living modest and to work steadily, even shyly, in the spirit of those medieval carvers who so fondly sculpted the undersides of choir seats.”

Trying Spirit Work Standards Seats Panic Modest Medieval Choir Standards Of Living Carver

Book:Conversations with John Updike

Source: Conversations with John Updike

“Game of Thrones' is a fantasy show not dedicated to any specific time, but it seems to exist in sort of a 1400s medieval fantasy world, and in that setting, I wouldn't have had a six-pack.”

World Shows Seems Games Fantasy Six Setting Settings Dedicated Packs Thrones Medieval Fantasy Worlds Six Packs

Author:Gwendoline Christie

“My view is that climate changes have happened in the last 80 years, that is, the world has got a little bit warmer, although not as warm as it has been in Medieval times, or the Bronze Age.”

World Years Littles Has Beens Age Lasts Bits Views Happened Little Bit Climate Climate Change Warm Medieval Bronze Medieval Times Bronze Medal

Author:Piers Corbyn

“If you were a medieval scholar reading a book, you knew that there was a reasonable likelihood you'd never see that particular text again, and so a high premium was placed on remembering what you read. You couldn't just pull a book off the shelf to consult it for a quote or an idea.”

Ifs Book Ideas Remember Reading Particular Reasonable Scholar Shelves Medieval Likelihood Premium

Book:Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything

Source: Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything

“My final historical romance came out December 2005. While I enjoyed writing medieval romances, I was also dying to write something with more edge.”

Writing Romance Dying Historical Finals Edges Enjoyed Medieval December

Author:Tina St. John

“The rosary was said every evening. I always liked that sentence about the medieval Churches, that they were the Bibles of the poor. The Church was my first book and I would think it is still my most important book.”

Thinking Firsts Said Stills Important Book Church Poor Sentences Evening Medieval Rosary Rosary Beads

Author:John McGahern

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