The Study of philosophy is not that we may know what men have thought, but what the truth of things is.
Thomas AquinasTag: philosophy medieval catholicism catholic catholic-philosophy
The next time somebody announces that he plans to get Medieval on your ass, tell him you're going to get Renaissance on his gonads.
James K. MorrowTag: humor fighting medieval renaissance
Those darling byegone times, Mr Carker,' said Cleopatra, 'with their delicious fortresses, and their dear old dungeons, and their delightful places of torture, and their romantic vengeances, and their picturesque assaults and sieges, and everything that makes life truly charming! How dreadfully we have degenerated!
Charles DickensTag: humor war nostalgia torture irony medieval middle-ages fortresses
I remember the fire, it burns bright, always around me. I close my eyes, and tears stream out. The tides of the past seize me, bear me out to sea.
Ned HayesApril comes to us, with her showers sweet. I wake to the cries of little birds before the light comes across the heath. They wait all night with open eyes. Now, with the rain at dawn, their voices make melody.
I turn back the reveled cloth of gold on my bed and walk to gaze beyond my glazed casement window. In the plaintive voices of the wood fowl, I imagine my mother calling to me, her words echoing across the years.
Tag: medieval
Do I perceive a softening in your heart for me, damoiselle?" He laughed at her scowl. "Beware maid. I will tell you true. After you will come another and then another. There are no strings that can tether me to any woman. So guard your heart."
"My lord, you greatly exaggerate your appeal," she replied indignantly. "If I fell anything for you, 'tis hatred. You are the enemy and you are to be despised as such."
"Indeed?" He smiled slowly into her eyes.
"Then tell me, damoiselle, do you always kiss the enemy so warmly?
Tag: medieval historical-romance
There was nothing medieval people liked better, or did better, than sorting out and tidying up. Of all our modern inventions I suspect that they would most have admired the card index.
C.S. LewisTag: medieval organization
Discover how to visit the past and bring yesterday's stories into our lives today
Gillian Hovell, 'Visiting the Past'Tag: history medieval britain roman archaeology stone-age dark-ages bronze-age hovell iron-age
It is easy to understand that in the dreary middle ages the Aristotelian logic would be very acceptable to the controversial spirit of the schoolmen, which, in the absence of all real knowledge, spent its energy upon mere formulas and words, and that it would be eagerly adopted even in its mutilated Arabian form, and presently established as the centre of all knowledge.
Arthur SchopenhauerTag: knowledge religion logic medieval aristotle
Most of the tools from medieval times were extensions of the physical self. Tools are now extensions of the mental self.
Lotoya PetersonTag: self medieval mentality tool
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