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“In Bach there is still too much crude Christianity, crude Germanism, crude scholasticism; he stands on the threshold of European (modern) music, but he looks back from there to the Middle Ages.”

Looks Stills Age Christianity Too Much Modern Middle Middle Ages Threshold Crude Modern Music Scholasticism

Author:Friedrich Nietzsche

“In middle age, I practiced feeling old, but the real thing has been a rude surprise.”

Has Beens Real Feelings Age Middle Surprise Old Age Rude Middle Ages Real Things

Author:Mason Cooley

“Middle Age is that perplexing time of life when we hear two voices calling us, one saying, 'Why not?' and the other, 'Why bother?'”

Two Age Funny Voice Middle Calling Aging Witty Bother Why Not Middle Ages Why Bother Different Voices

Author:Sydney J. Harris

“Some eras worship infancy; some, the aged. None as yet has adored middle age.”

Age Middle Worship Eras Middle Ages Infancy

Author:Mason Cooley

“In middle age, going naked contributes little to public enjoyment.”

Littles Age Gone Middle Naked Enjoyment Middle Ages

Author:Mason Cooley

“People who behave at forty as they did at twenty must sometimes wonder why their charm is not working.”

People Sometimes Age Wonder Twenties Behave Charm Forty Middle Ages

Author:Mason Cooley

“Middle-aged adolescents are a libel on the real thing.”

Real Age Middle Middle Ages Real Things Middle Aged Libel

Author:Mason Cooley

“In the Middle Ages the king offered protection to his subjects in return for their loyalty, and the subjects were doubly protected, for the church also sheltered them. The need for shelter - for a father image that cares and will hopefully provide and give some meaning to human lives - remains as real as it was in the Middle Ages, but modern technocracy has no place for either the father or the church and provides no substitute.”

Source: The Corrupt Society: From Ancient Greece to Present-Day America

“You and I are now nearly in middle age, and have not yet become soured and shrivelled with the wear and tear of life. Let us pray to be delivered from that condition where life and nature have no fresh, sweet sensations for us.”

Life Age Middle Conditions Tears Sweet Praying Sensations Middle Ages

Author:James A. Garfield

“The time passes so quickly during these full and active middle years that most people arrive at the end of middle age and the beginning of later maturity with surprise and a sense of having finished the journey while they were still preparing to commence it.”

People Years Stills Ends Age Journey Middle Surprise Active Finished Maturity Preparing Middle Ages Time Passes

Author:Robert J. Havighurst

“In antiquity and the Middle Ages reading was necessarily reading aloud.”

Age Reading Middle Middle Ages Antiquity Reading Aloud

Book:The Gutenberg Galaxy

Source: The Gutenberg Galaxy

“I'm the woman who used to think that middle-age spread was a cocktail dip.”

Thinking Age Used Middle Spread Middle Ages Cocktails Dip

Author:Phyllis Diller

“I suppose that anyone who does any kind of creative work some time in their life - especially as you grow into middle age! - you come to a time where you really question more and more frequently, whether you have anything else to offer. And at its worst, you feel utterly bereft of whatever creative force it takes to do that work.”

Feels Kind Doe Age Force Grows Creative Middle Worst Offers Middle Ages Creative Work Bereft

Author:Daniel Day-Lewis

“When you approach middle age, lots of stuff happens. Your body is aging, you're watching people around you get sick, you're watching people die, your mortality becomes very present at that point in your life.”

People Body Happens Age Dies Stuff Middle Approach Sick Aging Your Body Mortality Middle Ages Stuff Happens

Author:Charlie Kaufman

“I write my books to challenge my own feelings and theories. Perhaps most surprising was what I learned about rice farming. It was really interesting to think of how different Asian and Western cultures are as a result of the kinds of agricultural practices that our ancestors used for thousands of years. The life of a Chinese peasant in the Middle Ages was so dramatically different from the life of a European peasant - night and day different.”

“In western civilization, the period ruled by mysticism is known as the 'Dark Ages' and the 'Middle Ages'. I will assume that you know the nature of that period and the state of human existence in those ages. The Renaissance broke the rules of the mystics. "Renaissance" means the "rebirth". Few people today will care to remind you that it was a rebirth of reason - of man's mind.”

“When we were children, there was a silent part of us watching the child. When we were adolescents, there was that same witness watching the adolescent. Middle age, and so on. Every one, now and again, has discovered the self, the one who is watching.”

Children Self Age Middle Silent Witness Middle Ages

Author:Deepak Chopra

“Here's flowers for you; Hot lavender, mints, savoury, marjoram; The marigold, that goes to bed wi' the sun And with him rises weeping: these are flowers Of middle summer, and I think they are given To men of middle age.”

Thinking Men Age Given Sun Middle Flower Bed Summer Hot Middle Ages Weeping Mint Lavender Marigolds

Book:Comedies of Shakespeare in Plain and Simple English (a Modern Translation and the Original Version)

Source: Comedies of Shakespeare in Plain and Simple English (a Modern Translation and the Original Version)

“I really think that people have to think safety; taking risks for higher yield is a bad idea once you're in late or latish middle age.”

People Thinking Ideas Age Risk Middle Higher Late Safety Yield Middle Ages Bad Ideas Taking Risks

Author:Paul Krugman

“Middle age, my boy. No memory at all.”

Age Memories Boys Middle Aging Middle Ages My Boys No Memory

Author:John Towner Williams

“Jogging, I believe they call it. It seems to be an epidemic psychological illness afflicting Americans these days. A form of masochism, like the flagellantes in the Middle Ages.”

Believe Seems Age Form I Believe Middle Illness Psychological These Days Middle Ages Epidemics Jogging Masochism

Book:Small world: an academic romance

Source: Small world: an academic romance

“Here is the tragedy of theology in its distilled essence: The employment of high-powered human intellect, of genius, of profoundly rigorous logical deduction—studying nothing. In the Middle Ages, the great minds capable of transforming the world did not study the world; and so, for most of a millennium, as human beings screamed in agony—decaying from starvation, eaten by leprosy and plague, dying in droves in their twenties—the men of the mind, who could have provided their earthly salvation, abandoned them for otherworldly fantasies.”

“This (Vietnam) was a land of rebellious barons. It was like Europe in the Middle Ages. But what were the Americans doing here? Columbus had not yet discovered their country.”

Country Age History Land Middle Europe Vietnam Middle Ages Rebellious Columbus

Author:Graham Greene

“You will all know that in the Middle Ages there were supposed to be various classes of angels. these hierarchized celsitudes are but the last traces in a less philosophical age of the ideas which Plato taught his disciples existed in the spiritual world.”

Knows World Ideas Age Lasts Spiritual Class Middle Taught Angel Philosophical Various Supposed To Be Disciple Plato Middle Ages

Book:The Place of the Lion

Source: The Place of the Lion

“Memory is the first casualty of middle age, if I remember correctly.”

Ifs Firsts Age Remember Memories Middle Middle Ages Casualties

Author:Candice Bergen

“Middle Age - later than you think and sooner than you expect.”

Thinking Age Middle Middle Ages

Author:Earl Wilson

“Self-acceptance has been a blessed by-product of middle age.”

Has Beens Self Age Middle Acceptance Products Blessed Self Acceptance Middle Ages

Author:Candice Bergen

“If one sees the personality not as an apparatus that is essentially constructed by the time childhood is over, but as always in its essence developing, then life at 25 or 30 or at the gateway to middle age will stimulate its own intrigue, surprise, and exhilaration of discovery.”

Ifs Inspirational Age Childhood Middle Personality Discovery Essence Surprise Developing Intrigue Middle Ages Gateways Exhilaration

Author:Erik Erikson

“In middle age we are apt to reach the horrifying conclusion that all sorrow, all pain, all passionate regret and loss and bitter disillusionment are self-made”

Made Self Age Pain Loss Middle Regret Sorrow Passionate Conclusion Bitter Middle Ages Disillusionment Self Made

Book:Hands Full of Living: Talks with American Women

Source: Hands Full of Living: Talks with American Women

“The Romans had been able to post their laws on boards in public places, confidant that enough literate people existed to read them; far into the Middle Ages, even kings remained illiterate.”

People Enough Age Able Law Middle Kings Posts Boards Middle Ages Illiterate Confidant

Author:John Roberts

“I have the reputation for having read all of Henry James. Which would argue a misspent youth and middle age.”

Age Middle Youth Arguing Reputation Middle Ages Misspent Youth

Author:James Thurber

“Why do I feel so exercised about what we think of the people of the Middle Ages? ... I guess it's because so many of their voices are ringing vibrantly in my ears - Chaucer's, Boccaccio's, Henry Knighton's, Thomas Walsingham's. Froissart's, Jean Creton's... writers and contemporary historians of the period who seem to me just as individual, just as alive as we are today. We need to get to know these folk better in order to know who we are ourselves.”

People Thinking Knows Needs Feels Seems Age Today Order Individual Voice Alive Middle Periods Ears Folks Contemporary Who We Are Historian Middle Ages Chaucer

Author:Terry Jones

“Well, the first thing I had to do was to read a lot. First of all, about education... and looking at education from the Middle Ages right through to the 20th Century. The second major area was country life in the 19th Century, which I don't know much about these days.”

Knows Firsts Wells Country Age Middle Century Majors Areas These Days 20th Century Middle Ages 19th Century Country Life

Author:Michael Haneke

“Most established novelists are writing books informed by experiences gained in their youth. Middle age is not the best time to be changing smartphones every six months or adopting new technology platforms - because we tend to get slower and less accommodating to change as we age.”

Writing Book Age Technology Middle Youth Months Six Novelists Platforms Six Months Middle Ages Writing A Book New Technology Best Times Adopting Smartphones

Author:Charles Stross

“I definitely have a kind of Stockholm Syndrome for superhero movies because it's very clear that's the era we're in. It's like Christianity in the Middle Ages.”

Kind Age Christianity Clear Middle Eras Superhero Middle Ages Syndromes Stockholm Stockholm Syndrome

Author:Wesley Morris

“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.”

“In youth, in middle age, and now after many battles, I find nothing in me but corruption.”

Age Middle Youth Battle Corruption Middle Ages

Author:John Knox

“Middle-age has its compensations. You feel no need to do what you do not like. You are no longer ashamed of yourself; you are reconciled to being what you are, and you do not much mind what people think of you.”

People Thinking Needs Feels Mind Age Middle Like You Ashamed Middle Ages Compensation Think Of You

Author:Selina Hastings, Countess of Huntingdon

“The information highway will transform our culture as dramatically as Gutenberg's press did the Middle Ages.”

Age Culture Middle Information Presses Highways Middle Ages Gutenberg

Book:The road ahead

Source: The road ahead

“People who are always praising the past And especially the time of faith as best Ought to go and live in the Middle Ages And be burnt at the stake as witches and sages.”

People Age Past Middle Ought Praise Witch Stakes Sage Middle Ages

Author:Stevie Smith

“We often forget that Spain controlled big parts of Europe, in Italy and the Netherlands. In the Middle Ages, Spain and Portugal were so powerful that they signed a set of treaties literally dividing up the globe between them.”

Bigs Age Forget Powerful Middle Europe Controlled Globes Spain Middle Ages Treaties Dividing Portugal Netherlands

Author:Max Fisher

“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.”

World Want Made Age Today Christian Issues Middle Changed Return Europe Ideals Roots Fundamentals Manage Middle Ages Transfers

Author:Walter Kasper

“Under the Assads, Kurds were forbidden from learning their own language at school, or even from speaking it in the military. The result is a generation of Syrian Kurds, many now in late middle age, who cant write their own language.”

Writing Age School Language Results Generations Middle Military Late Forbidden Cant Middle Ages Kurds

Author:Luke Harding

“Middle age is when your age starts to show around your middle.”

“The radical elements in Islam are very dangerous. They want to achieve a return to the Islamic purity of the Middle Ages.”

Want Age Middle Achieve Dangerous Return Elements Islam Radical Purity Islamic Middle Ages

Author:Brent Scowcroft

“Programming is how we talk to the machines that are increasingly woven into our lives. If you aren't a programmer, you're like one of the unlettered people of the Middle Ages who were told what to think by the literate priesthood. We had a Renaissance when more people could read and write; we'll have another one when everyone programs.”

People Ifs Thinking Writing Age Our Lives Middle Program Machines Programming Middle Ages Programmers Renaissance Woven Priesthood

Author:Tim O'Reilly

“When future historians look back on our way of curing inflation...they'll probably compare it to bloodletting in the Middle Ages.”

Way Looks Age Middle Compare Historian Inflation Middle Ages Bloodletting

Author:Lee Iacocca

“In the middle ages of Christianity opposition to the State opinions was hushed. The consequence was, Christianity became loaded with all the Romish follies. Nothing but free argument, raillery & even ridicule will preserve the purity of religion.”

States Age Christianity Opinion Middle Consequence Argument Preserves Purity Folly Opposition Ridicule Middle Ages Loaded

Book:The Life and Writings of ...

Source: The Life and Writings of ...

“It seems to me that since the Middle Ages (it's not a Reformation thing), all that stuff about Jews and Gentiles coming together in Christ was just screened out.”

Seems Age Together Stuff Christ Middle Jew Middle Ages Reformation Coming Together Gentiles

Author:N. T. Wright

“Life was cheap in the Middle Ages. It has become cheaper since. It is only in specific battles for specific lives that our culture is put to the test, and with it our humanity.”

Age Humanity Culture Middle Battle Tests Middle Ages Cheaper

Book:Dear Me

Source: Dear Me

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