Medieval Quotes - Page 3

• There isn't any (afterlife), you dingbat! This is it, baby! Enjoy, carefully! Religion is such a medieval idea. Don't get me started. I have thought about every facet of religion and I can't buy any of it. So God made man in His own image? It's just the other way around. Man made God in his own image. It's all about money.

  Phyllis Diller

  Baby, Men, Ideas

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• In Florence, classical buildings sit against medieval buildings. It's that contrast we like.

  Richard Rogers

  Florence, Building, Contrast

  "Interview: architects Richard Rogers, Graham Stirk and Ivan Harbour". Interview with Charlotte Higgins, www.theguardian.com. January 27, 2012.

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• La idea de que la guerra debe desarrollarse dentro de un marco moral puede parecer una práctica medieval pintoresca, pero al igual que el habla separa a los humanos de los simios, la moral separa a la civilización de los bárbaros.

  Eric Corley

  War, Practice, Ideas

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• What the great mentor is always looking for is a person who is willing to tap his genius, to put it through the refiner's fire, to do the hard work to develop it. Indeed, mentoring is the medieval art of alchemy-turning plain old human steel into hearts and minds of gold.

  Oliver DeMille

  Art, Hard Work, Fire

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• Hoy en día, por el contrario, el cristianismo se especializa en música ambiental de enfoque suave; sus amenazas del infierno, su exigencia de pobreza y castidad, su doctrina de que sólo unos pocos se salvarán y muchos se condenarán, han sido sustituidas por guitarras rasgueadas y sonrisas acarameladas. Se ha reinventado a sí misma tantas veces, y con una hipocresía tan pasmosa, en aras de conservar su dominio sobre los crédulos, que un monje medieval que despertara hoy, como el Sleeper de Woody Allen, no sería capaz de reconocer la fe que lleva el mismo nombre que la suya.

  A.C. Grayling

  Guitar, Names, Hypocrisy

  "Can an atheist be a fundamentalist?" by A. C. Grayling, www.theguardian.com. May 3, 2006.

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• Como los teólogos medievales, teníamos una filosofía que nos lo explicaba todo de antemano, y todo lo que no encajaba podía identificarse fácilmente como un fraude, una mentira o una ilusión... Lo pernicioso de la ideología anticomunista de la Doctrina Truman no surge de ninguna falsedad patente, sino de su distorsión y simplificación de la realidad, de su universalización y su elevación a la categoría de verdad revelada.

  J. William Fulbright

  Mentira, Filosofía, Realidad

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• Our belief in salvation through the market is very much in the Utopian tradition. The economists and managers are the servants of God. Like the medieval scholastics, their only job is to uncover the divine plan. They could never create or stop it. At most they might aspire to small alterations.

  John Ralston Saul

  Jobs, Servant Of God, Might

  John Ralston Saul (1999). “The Unconscious Civilization”, p.121, Simon and Schuster

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• Consumerism has become a new religion, complete with its high priests at Which? and its fatwas against anyone with the temerity to try to sell anything at more than cost price ... It is a depressingly medieval outlook on economic life.

  Sean O'Grady

  Trying, Cost, Economic

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• We've got paleolithic emotions, medieval institutions, and god-like technologies.

  E. O. Wilson

  Technology, Emotion, Institutions

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• Your mind is your spirit; do not seek any other hidden soul inside you! All is in the brain! The depiction of a spirit rising to the sky is no more real than a medieval Scandinavian fairytales!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Real, Sky, Soul

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• Para asegurarme de que mi blasfemia queda bien expresada, declaro por la presente mi opinión de que la noción de un dios es una superstición básica, que no hay pruebas de la existencia de ningún dios o dioses, que los diablos, demonios, ángeles y santos son mitos, que no hay vida después de la muerte, cielo ni infierno, que el Papa es un peligroso dinosaurio medieval intolerante, y que el Espíritu Santo es un personaje de cómic digno de risa y escarnio.

  James Randi

  Laughter, Book, Character

  Skeptic Magazine, Volume 3, No. 4, 1995.

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• If we study learning as a data science, we can reverse engineer the human brain and tailor learning techniques to maximize the chances of student success. This is the biggest revolution that could happen in education, turning it into a data-driven science, and not such a medieval set of rumors professors tend to carry on.

  Sebastián Thrun

  Data, Brain, Rumor

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• Siempre me ha interesado mucho el arte medieval que representa a personas atormentadas.

  Jack Larson

  Art, People, Portraying

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• If you have an area where high-income receivers concentrate, you have a higher fiscal capacity. That fiscal capacity is a valuable resource and will create rent-seeking. People will trying to get that resource one way or the other, including immigration. It is very much like the medieval peasants putting their sheep on the commons pasture. It is better than the open range, and if you let them have open access they will, in fact, put too many sheep on the pasture and waste the value that the pasture has.

  James M. Buchanan

  Past, Sheep, People

  Fuente: www.aims.ca

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• Now, as at the beginning of the 19th century, there is a certain discovery of Eckhart and related figures. There are questions as to how far our Eckhart accords with the real medieval teacher of that name, but there are certainly images in his work that help us work our way past several of the aporia with which we're confronted in our attempts to think about God.

  George Pattison

  Teacher, Real, Past

  "Hacia la esperanza". Entrevista con Richard Marshall, www.3ammagazine.com. 18 th Of July de 2014.

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• When they're shooting, when they're chopping off the heads of our people and other people, when they are chopping off the heads of people because they happen to be a Christian in the Middle East, when ISIS is doing things that nobody has ever heard of since medieval times, would I feel strongly about waterboarding? As far as I'm concerned, we have to fight fire with fire.

  Donald Trump

  Christian, Fighting, Fire

  Interview with David Muir, abcnews.go.com. January 25, 2017.

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• In medieval Europe, childbirth was a leading cause of death. So widowed fathers with children were quite common, meaning stepmothers were equally common.

  Robert Paul Weston

  Children, Father, Europe

  Fuente: www.yabookshelf.com

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• Aunque me atraía el Renacimiento, mis primeras novelas (no publicadas) transcurrían en la época moderna. Cuando el tema de la alquimia empezó a colarse en mis historias, un astuto mentor observó que los fragmentos sobre alquimia podrían encajar mejor en otro marco temporal. Cuando por fin me decidí a entretejer los fragmentos sobre la ciencia medieval en escenarios históricos, empezó a surgir una novela de éxito. (Y desempolvé aquel libro de historia del arte y volví a darle uso).

  Mary Pope Osborne

  Arte, Libro, Éxito

  Fuente: www.yabookshelf.com

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• If you think about Don Quixote, Don Quixote is this guy who wants to live as if he was in a medieval chivalric romance, when actually he lives in sixteenth-century Spain, which is already going through secularization, industrialization, modernization. He goes out to kill a giant, and instead he collides with this huge windmill and injures himself and also damages the windmill. I think that's a metaphor for the collisions we all have over time, as our ideas of ourselves get out of synch with the historical moment.

  Elif Batuman

  Pensar, Ideas, Guy

  Fuente: www.guernicamag.com

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• América no necesitaba ser descubierta porque, sencillamente, América ya tenía a los indios americanos. Había grupos enteros de personas que ya vivían allí, incluidas sociedades muy desarrolladas como los incas, los aztecas y los mayas. Pero entonces llegó la visión europea que vio en la conquista una fuente de crecimiento avanzado lejos de la Europa medieval. La nueva corriente burguesa revolucionaria formó una nueva perspectiva de lo que era la democracia que veían como una mejora de la democracia de la antigua Grecia.

  Alejandro Castro Espín

  Europa, América, Perspectiva

  "El futuro de Cuba". Entrevista con Lasonas Pipinis Velasco, www.counterpunch.org. 27 de febrero de 2015.

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• The American Heritage Dictionary defines crucible as "a place, time, or situation characterized by the confluence of powerful intellectual, social, economic, or political forces; a severe test of patience or belief; a vessel for melting material at high temperatures." A crucible was the vessel in which medieval alchemists attempted to turn base metals into gold. That the alchemists inevitably failed in their audacious attempts doesn't denigrate the power of the crucible as a metaphor for the circumstances that cause an individual to be utterly transformed.

  Warren G. Bennis

  Powerful, Political, Crucible

  Fuente: bobmorris.biz

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• The war in Afghanistan was fought for feminist reasons, and the Marines were really on this feminist mission. But today, all the women in all these countries have been driven back into medieval situations. Women who were liberated, women who were doctors and lawyers and poets and writers and - you know, pushed back into this Shia set against Sunnis. The U.S. is supporting al-Qaeda militias all over this region and pretending that it's fighting Islam. So we are in a situation that is psychopathic.

  Arundhati Roy

  País, Guerra, Lucha

  Fuente: www.truth-out.org

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• The whole thing that Dante [Alighieri] did was summed up in the medieval world. It's like St. Thomas Aquinas, the Summa Theologica. He didn't invent it, he just put it all in one package. You get twelve fat books there sitting in any library. Whereas... I think if Joshi thinks [H.P.] Lovecraft was doing anything like that, just throwing together all this stuff to form a kind of anti-mythology, that's where I would disagree with him.

  Paul Laffoley

  Libro, Pensamiento, Biblioteca

  Fuente: www.paranoiamagazine.com

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• Now the Thanksgiving meal is just so unnecessarily difficult. I mean even mashed potatoes - it's like the most difficult kind of, you know, medieval idea. All right, instead of just cooking them, why don't you spend, like, eight hours peeling them and then we'll have to mash them up. It feels like prison labor, really.

  Jim Gaffigan

  Mean, Eight, Ideas

  Fuente: www.npr.org

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• Religion is such a medieval idea. Don't get me started. I have thought about every facet of religion, and I can't buy any of it.

  Phyllis Diller

  Ideas, Facets, I Can

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