Quotes of: Eighteenth-century Keyword

Polygraph tests are 20th-century witchcraft.

Sam Ervin

It's hard for me to think of others because I'm not particularly in sympathy with the music of this century.

Alan Hovhaness

My music is all about an idealistic human personality. I have 19th-century ideals.

Gordon Getty

There are elements to the 19th century which just don't work for contemporary audiences.

Cary Fukunaga

The Age of Intellect is accompanied by surprising advances in natural science. In the ninth century, for example, in the age of Mamun, the Arabs measured the circumference of the earth with remarkable accuracy. Seven centuries were to pass before Wes...

The Fate of Empires and Search for Survival

The Oracle pursued a logical course of confuting theism, and leaving 'a-theism' the negative result. It did not, in the absurd terms of common religious propaganda, 'deny the existence of God.' It affirmed that God was a term for an existence imagine...

A History of Free Thought in the Nineteenth Century V1

Do you have still the dye with which to turn your tunic red?’ ‘The madder? Yes, I do.’ ‘Enough of it for a century?’ ‘Enough for the entire cohort, if you want it.’ He twitched a smile then; I was coming to know it, and to revel in the ...

Rome: The Eagle of the Twelfth

Learning about freedom, for . . . the very essence of human existence, knowledge, as the mind is an element that enables us to shift the winds of luck, reshape the forces of fate or destiny, and, ultimately, empower us to become free authors of our o...

Twenty-first Century Dynamics of Multiculturalism: Beyond Post-racial America

I look forward to seeing you in the “jungle” as our warriors meet and join the battle drum that calls for unity in the struggle for breaking the chains of modern slavery—like the butterflies flying the skies and the birds over the seas, all are...

Twenty-first Century Dynamics of Multiculturalism: Beyond Post-racial America

Perhaps more than never, in a highly globalized world, we must recognize that multiculturalism is not simply understanding ethnic/racial histories or the mere appreciation of cultural “difference,” but accepting that multiculturalism spreads acro...

Twenty-first Century Dynamics of Multiculturalism: Beyond Post-racial America

‎W. H. Auden once suggested that to understand your own country you need to have lived in at least two others. One can say something similar for periods of time: to understand your own century you need to have come to terms with at least two others...

The Time Traveller's Guide to Medieval England: A Handbook for Visitors to the Fourteenth Century

It is arguable that when Humanists, "Shook off," as people say, "the trammels of religion," and discovered things of this world as objects of veneration in their own right... they began to lose the finer appreciation of even the world itself. Thus to...

Purgatorio

Modern nationalism swept Europe alongside the flourishing of industrialisation. Across the continent, poets and intellectuals cultivated and often heavily modified vernacular languages to be bearers of 19th century modernity. These guardians of langu...

Michael Gordin

The marriage of reason and nightmare that dominated the 20th century has given birth to an ever more ambiguous world. Across the communications landscape move the spectres of sinister technologies and the dreams that money can buy. Thermo-nuclear wea...

J.G. Ballard

We are an age without leaders. We stopped having leaders at the end of the 20th century.

Oriana Fallaci

The age of recalcitrance is over. The best solution is no longer just to regurgitate a 19th-century design.

Thom Mayne

Film in the 20th century, it's the American art form, like jazz.

Martin Scorsese

Christian art today should be twentieth-century art.

Art & the Bible

For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-knowing.

H. L. Mencken

The old newspaper adage, 'If it bleeds, it leads,' is as true today as it was a century ago.

Peter Diamandis

For centuries, Cuba's greatest resource has been its people.

Pico Iyer