#renaissance

What I'm suggesting to you is that this could be a renaissance. We may be on the cusp of a future which could provide a tremendous leap forward for humanity. ↗

— Jeremy Rifkin

#cusp #forward #future #humanity #i

The dramatic modernization of the Asian economies ranks alongside the Renaissance and the Industrial Revolution as one of the most important developments in economic history. ↗

— Lawrence Summers

#asian #developments #dramatic #economic #economies

While nothing is certain, I firmly believe our nation is on the verge of a nuclear energy renaissance. ↗

— Michael K. Simpson

#certain #energy #firmly #i #nation

The Renaissance is studded by the names of the artists and architects, with their creations recorded as great historical events. ↗

— Arthur Erickson

#artists #creations #events #great #historical

Whose little boy are you? ↗

— James Baldwin

#black #church #coming-of-age #epiphany #god

The Stoics define wisdom to be conducted by reason, and folly nothing else but the being hurried by passion, lest our life should otherwise have been too dull and inactive, that creator, who out of clay first tempered and made us up, put into the composition of our humanity more than a pound of passions to an ounce of reason; and reason he confined within the narrow cells of the brain, whereas he left passions the whole body to range in. Farther, he set up two sturdy champions to stand perpetually on guard, that reason might make no assault, surprise, nor inroad ; anger, which keeps its station in the fortress of the heart ; and lust, which like the signs Virgo and Scorpio, rules the appetites and passions. ↗

— Desiderius Erasmus Roterodamus

#love #renaissance #wisdom #anger

Nobody can understand the greatness of the thirteenth century, who does not realize that it was a great growth of new things produced by a living thing. In that sense it was really bolder and freer than what we call the renaissance, which was a resurrection of old things discovered in a dead thing... and the Gospel according to St. Thomas... was a new thrust like the titanic thrust of Gothic engineering; and its strength was in a God that makes all things new. ↗

— G.K. Chesterton

#civilization #culture #europe #history #renaissance

In short, it became possible - never easy, but possible - in the poet Auden's phrase to find the mortal world enough. ↗

— Stephen Greenblatt

#auden #renaissance #art

I go to seek a Great Perhaps. ↗

— François Rabelais

#french-renaissance-writer #john-green #last-words #life #looking-for-alaska

Tool lists from the fourteenth century indicate that pitchforks, spades, axes, plows, and harrows, which have teeth to break up soil, were widely used. Both plows and harrows could be pushed or pulled by peasants. However, during the Renaissance an increasing number of farms used horses for such tasks, as well as for pulling carts that would take surplus food to market in nearby towns. ↗

— Patricia D. Netzley

#food