#middle ages

Yet for my part, deeply as I am moved by the religious architecture of the Middle Ages, I cannot honestly say that I ever felt the slightest emotion in any modern Gothic church. ↗

— Goldwin Smith

#am #any #architecture #cannot #church

Morally, the world is both better and worse than it was. We are worse off than in the middle ages, or the 17th and 18th centuries, in that we have the atomic menace. ↗

— Pierre Schaeffer

#atomic #better #both #centuries #menace

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

In the middle ages people were tourists because of their religion, whereas now they are tourists because tourism is their religion. ↗

— Robert Runcie

#because #middle #middle ages #now #people

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

Generals think war should be waged like the tourneys of the Middle Ages. I have no use for knights; I need revolutionaries. ↗

— Adolf Hitler

#generals #i #knights #like #middle

In the absence of evidence, superstition. It's a Middle Ages thing. That's my theory anyway. ↗

— Tucker Carlson

#ages #anyway #evidence #middle #middle ages

At the end of the Middle Ages, nobody would ever have expected the monasteries to vanish from the scene within a generation - yet they did. Change does happen. ↗

— Rowan Williams

#change #did #does #end #ever

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

— Stephen Gardiner

#became #characteristic #dwelling #form #hall

We owe to the Middle Ages the two worst inventions of humanity - romantic love and gunpowder. ↗

— Andre Maurois

#ages #gunpowder #humanity #inventions #love