Middle Ages Quotes - Page 15

• I don't know what falling in love for me is. The concept of romantic love arose in the Middle Ages. Now remember, the Arabs don't even have a word for love-that is, a word for love apart from physical attraction or sex. And this separation of love and sex is a western concept, a Christian concept. As to what falling in love means, I'm uncertain. Love, well, it means simply physical attraction and liking a person at the same time.

  William S. Burroughs

  Christian, Falling In Love, Sex

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• In youth, in middle age, and now after many battles, I find nothing in me but corruption.

  John Knox

  Age, Battle, Youth

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• I think middle-age is the best time, if we can escape the fatty degeneration of the conscience which often sets in at about fifty.

  William Ralph Inge

  Thinking, Age, Fifty

  William Ralph Inge (1932). “More Lay Thoughts of a Dean”

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• Your best work involves timing. If someone wrote the best hip hop song of all time in the Middle Ages, he had bad timing.

  Scott Adams

  Song, Hip Hop, Age

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• People who behave at forty as they did at twenty must sometimes wonder why their charm is not working.

  Mason Cooley

  People, Age, Twenties

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• There is one bit of advice given us by the ancient Greeks, and by the Jews in the Old Testament, and by the great Christian teachers of the Middle Ages, which the modern economic system has completely disobeyed. All these people told us not to lend money at interest; and lending money at interest - what we call investment - is the basis of our whole system.

  C. S. Lewis

  Christian, Teacher, People

  C. S. Lewis (2012). “The Complete C. S. Lewis Signature Classics”, p.79, HarperCollins UK

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• Astrology is knocking at the gates of our universities: A Tübingen professor has switched over to astrology and a course on astrology was given at Cardiff University last year. Astrology is not mere superstition but contains some psychological facts (like theosophy) which are of considerable importance. Astrology has actually nothing to do with the stars but is the 5000-year-old psychology of antiquity and the Middle Ages.

  Carl Jung

  Stars, Years, Astrology

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• Instead of facing a crisis as I approached middle age, I discovered that a new and better life lay before me. I called the process of discovery 'halftime,' and the outcome led to my second half.

  Bob Buford

  Discovery, Age, Half

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• We often forget that Spain controlled big parts of Europe, in Italy and the Netherlands. In the Middle Ages, Spain and Portugal were so powerful that they signed a set of treaties literally dividing up the globe between them.

  Max Fisher

  Powerful, Europe, Age

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• I have a feeling there is no ideal situation, unless she could go back in time and be 22 again. I think some of it is just kind of the shock of realizing that you're approaching middle age, or that you are middle-aged and kind of coming to terms with that in whatever incremental ways.

  Amanda Peet

  Thinking, Feelings, Age

  "Amanda Peet and Steve Zissis discuss what the second season holds for Togetherness". Interview with Gwen Ihnat, www.avclub.com. February 21, 2016.

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• Mindfulness is the key to everything, and this is especially true when one approaches the cultural portal known as "middle age." This is when people mindlessly believe that it's normal to get diseases and start to fall apart. But the truth is that midlife is the time when people need to wake up and be far more mindful about their everyday habits and thinking patterns.

  Christiane Northrup

  Fall, Believe, Thinking

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• One of the great sadnesses of my life, as I take stock at middle age, is the sense that the adventure largely ended by the time I was twenty-five.

  Jon Weisman

  Adventure, Sadness, Age

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• At fifteen, it [ "Follies"] didn't have any kind of resonance with me, this show about regret and middle age.

  Charles Busch

  Regret, Age, Fifteen

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• At fifty you realize that you are no longer a kid. I ignored forty. It was like I was almost at middle age. Maybe it's the baby boomer thing. But undeniably, I am a man. I have to accept [mortality].

  John Travolta

  Baby, Kids, Men

  Source: www.aboutfilm.com

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• Had today's technophobic zealots [environmental activists] been in charge in previous centuries, we would have to roll human progress back to the Middle Ages - and beyond, since even fire, the wheel and organic farming pose risks, and none would have passed the "absolute safety" test the zealots demand. Putting them in charge now would mean an end to progress, and perpetual deprivation for inhabitants of developing nations.

  Paul Driessen

  Mean, Fire, Safety

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• Some years ago John Kenneth Galbraith wrote in an essay on his efforts at writing a history of economics: 'As one approaches the present, one is filled with a sense of hopelessness; in a year and possibly even a month, there is now more economic comment in the supposedly serious literature than survives from the whole of the thousand years commonly denominated as the Middle Ages ... anyone who claims to be familiar with it all is a confessing liar.' I believe that all physicists would subscribe to the same sentiments regarding their own professional literature. I do at any rate.

  Abraham Pais

  Liars, Believe, Writing

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• The information highway will transform our culture as dramatically as Gutenberg's press did the Middle Ages.

  Bill Gates

  Age, Gutenberg, Culture

  Bill Gates, Nathan Myhrvold, Peter Rinearson (1996). “The Road Ahead”, Wheeler Pub Incorporated

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• People who are always praising the past And especially the time of faith as best Ought to go and live in the Middle Ages And be burnt at the stake as witches and sages.

  Stevie Smith

  Past, People, Age

  'The Past' (1957)

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• Under the Assads, Kurds were forbidden from learning their own language at school, or even from speaking it in the military. The result is a generation of Syrian Kurds, many now in late middle age, who cant write their own language.

  Luke Harding

  Military, Writing, School

  "War is raging in Aleppo but in a classroom 40km away, there are grounds for hope" by Luke Harding, www.theguardian.com. December 17, 2012.

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• The radical elements in Islam are very dangerous. They want to achieve a return to the Islamic purity of the Middle Ages.

  Brent Scowcroft

  Islamic, Age, Elements

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Programming is how we talk to the machines that are increasingly woven into our lives. If you aren't a programmer, you're like one of the unlettered people of the Middle Ages who were told what to think by the literate priesthood. We had a Renaissance when more people could read and write; we'll have another one when everyone programs.

  Tim O'Reilly

  Writing, Thinking, People

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• When future historians look back on our way of curing inflation...they'll probably compare it to bloodletting in the Middle Ages.

  Lee Iacocca

  Age, Looks, Way

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• I am too old to fawn upon a nurse,
  Too far in years to be a pupil now.

  William Shakespeare

  Education, Learning, Years

  William Shakespeare, Samuel Johnson (1765). “The Plays of William Shakespeare: In Eight Volumes”, p.19

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• If catastrophic geology had at times pushed Nature to almost indecent extremes of haste, uniformitarian geology, on the other hand, had erred in the opposite direction, and pictured Nature when she was 'young and wantoned [sic] in her prime', as moving with the lame sedateness of advanced middle age. It became necessary, therefore, as Dr. [Samuel] Haughton expresses it, 'to hurry up the phenomena'.

  William Johnson Sollas

  Nature, Moving, Science

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• The Great Recession is not imaginary, and the effects loom large. There was an article in the NYT about the galloping death rate among white men in middle age. Higher than among any other demographic, etc. Mostly death by drugs, alcohol, or suicide. Many of them rural. My feeling is that it's many people who haven't been able to get back into the work force. Reg Morse is an example of the problem.

  Rick Moody

  Suicide, Men, White

  Source: therumpus.net

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