Renaissance quotes
78 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
"Medical research in the twentieth century mostly takes place in the lab; in the Renaissance, though, researchers went first and foremost to the library to see what the ancients had said."
"When you get a new worldview you get a new world. It's like the shift from medieval Christianity to the Renaissance and enlightenment."
"The mind of the Renaissance was not a pilgrim mind, but a sedentary city mind, like that of the ancients."
"Aquinas brought an Aristotelian view of reason back into European culture, and lighted the way toward the Renaissance."
"When we talk about the future, we often talk about it as damage and limitation exercise. That needn't be the case - it could be a Renaissance."
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"I was determined to make Renaissance Man Food Services and Herschel's Famous 34 major players in a very tough industry."
"Eric Walrond, handsome, cosmopolitan, and beguilingly enigmatic, may have been the most promising literary talent of the Harlem Renaissance.... James Davis's finely written, beautifully paced Eric Walrond is a major biography of a fascinating figure."
"Dali was Renaissance man converted to psychoanalysis."
"We have made a great effort to maintain all levels of Buddhist education; it has helped us have a kind of renaissance, really."
"Warhol turned to photographs of stars, as the Renaissance turned to antiquities, to find images of gods."
"Not contentment, but more power; not peace at any price, but war; not virtue, but efficiency (virtue in the Renaissance sense, virtu , virtue free of moral acid)."
"Who is this Renaissance? Where did he come from? Who gave him permission to cram the Republic with his execrable daubs?"
"The parents used to drag the little ones, and now the kids are coming--and they're not little anymore. Things are evolving. Maybe there's a renaissance for our music."
