“Divorce is simply modern society's version of medieval torture. Except it lasts longer and leaves deeper scars. A divorce releases the most primitive emotions; the ugliest, raw feelings. Emotionally wounded people do their best to inflict pain upon the other party, but rather than using claws they use divorce lawyers.” PeopleUseFeelingsPainLastsPartyEmotionModernDeeperDivorceLawyerVersionsReleaseTortureScarPrimitiveWoundedMedievalClawsModern SocietyDivorce Lawyers Book:Up Till Now Source: Up Till Now
“The medieval theologian who gazed at the night sky through the eyes of Aristotle and saw angels moving the spheres in harmony has become the modern cosmologist who gazes at the same sky through the eyes of Einstein and sees the hand of God not in angels but in the constants of nature. When confronted with the order and beauty of the universe and the strange coincidences of nature, it¹s very tempting to take the leap of faith from science into religion. I am sure many physicists want to. I only wish they would admit it.” WantHandsEyeMovingNightOrderUniverseWishSawsSkyModernStrangeAngelHarmonyLeapSpheresCoincidenceTheologianPhysicistMedievalNight SkyTemptingThrough The EyesHands Of GodLeap Of Faith Author:Tony Rothman
“Religion glorifies the dogma of a despotic, mythical God. Atheism ennobles the interests of free and progressive Man. Religion is superstition. Atheism is sanity. Religion is medieval. Atheism is modern.” MenInterestAtheismModernProgressiveSanitySuperstitionsDogmaMedievalGlorify Author:E. Haldeman-Julius
“Should an anthropologist or a sociologist be looking for a bizarre society to study, I would suggest he come to Ulster. It is one of Europe's oddest countries. Here, in the middle of the twentieth century, with modern technology transforming everybody's lives, you find a medieval mentality that is being dragged painfully into the eighteenth century by some forward-looking people.” PeopleShouldCountryTechnologyStudyModernMiddleCenturyEuropeMentalityIrelandBizarreTwentieth CenturyTransformingMedievalAnthropologistsSociologistsModern TechnologyUlster Author:Bernadette Devlin
“As the medieval mind blamed God for human suffering, so the modern mind blames 'the system' for the industrial blight and plague of technology.” MindHumansSufferingTechnologyModernBlamePlagueMedievalHuman SufferingBlight Author:Jennifer Stone
“The faith engaged with Platonism in the ancient world, with Aristotle in the medieval world, with nominalism in the Reformation era, and with rationalism in the modern world. Now the church must engage with the emergence of a postmodern, post- Christian, neo-pagan world.” WorldChristianChurchModernAncientErasPostsEngagedModern WorldMedievalPaganReformationEmergenceRationalismPostmodernAncient World Author:Robert E. Webber
“I think it modern society as a whole, but definitively in Brazil, spaces are so well divided and there are so many barriers, and so many divisions, so many lines and so many borderlines, basically telling you that you should be here but not here. This is my space and this is your space, and this is expressed very dramatically in architecture, we have a very kind of aggressive, almost medieval concept for architecture, which is basically keeping people out. So you get high walls, fences, and electric fences, and divisions like that.” PeopleThinkingShouldWellsKindWholeLinesSpaceModernWallConceptsArchitectureBarriersDivisionDividedAggressiveElectricFenceMedievalBrazilModern SocietyGetting HighBorderlineMy Space Author:Kleber Mendonca Filho
“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.” LooksKnowledgeModernCollegeUniversityFactoriesBackwardsMedievalNew Knowledge Author:Thomas Huxley
“Anyone who has studied the history of technology knows that technological change is always a Faustian bargain: Technology giveth and technology taketh away, and not always in equal measure. A new technology sometimes creates more than it destroys. Sometimes, it destroys more than it creates. But it is never one-sided. The invention of the printing press is an excellent example. Printing fostered the modern idea of individuality but it destroyed the medieval sense of community and social integration.” KnowsIdeasSometimesSocialCommunityTechnologyModernExampleEqualPressesIndividualityInventionDestroyedExcellentTechnologicalIntegrationMedievalBargainsPrintingNew TechnologyPrinting PressOne SidedTechnological Change Author:Neil Postman
“While I was drawn to the Renaissance, my first (unpublished) novels took place in modern times. When the subject of alchemy started creeping into my stories, an astute mentor observed that the bits about alchemy might fit better in another time frame. When I finally decided to weave the pieces about the medieval science into historical settings, a successful novel began to emerge. (And I dusted off that art history book, and put it to use once again.)” FirstsArtBookStoriesUseMightBitsNovelSuccessfulPiecesModernSubjectsFitDecidedHistoricalSettingSettingsMentorMedievalRenaissanceAlchemyArt HistoryHistory BooksModern TimesAnother TimeAstute Author:Mary Pope Osborne