#middle age

For three hundred years we have had our focus on the individual. We have distinguished him from the objective world as the Middle Ages did not think of doing. We have given him the world and the universe as a playground for exploration and discovery. ↗

— John Grierson

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Middle age snuffs out more talent than ever wars or sudden deaths do. ↗

— Richard Hughes

#deaths #ever #middle #middle age #more

I like to be alone so I can write. But focus can hurt you. I don't want to be some stress casualty in early middle age. ↗

— James Ellroy

#alone #casualty #early #focus #hurt

Middle age went by while I was mourning for my lost youth. ↗

— Mason Cooley

#i #lost #middle #middle age #mourning

We are certainly influenced by role models, and if we are surrounded by images of beautiful rich people, we will start to think that to be beautiful and rich is very important - just as in the Middle Ages, people were surrounded by images of religious piety. ↗

— Alain de Botton

#beautiful #certainly #images #important #influenced

Setting a good example for your children takes all the fun out of middle age. ↗

— William Feather

#children #example #fun #good #good example

Middle age is the time when a man is always thinking that in a week or two he will feel as good as ever. ↗

— Don Marquis

#always #ever #feel #good #man

The tendency to gather and to breed philosophers in universities does not belong to ages of free and humane reflection: it is scholastic and proper to the Middle Ages and to Germany. ↗

— George Santayana

#belong #breed #does #free #gather

One of the many things nobody ever tells you about middle age is that it's such a nice change from being young. ↗

— William Feather

#about #being #change #ever #many

The technology that threatens to kill off books as we know them - the 'physical book,' a new phrase in our language - is also making the physical book capable of being more beautiful than books have been since the middle ages. ↗

— Art Spiegelman

#also #beautiful #been #being #book