Renaissance Quotes - Page 3

• Let us help the phoenix to rise from the ashes; let us help lay the foundation for a new renaissance; let us help to accelerate the spiritual awakening until it lifts us into the golden age which would come.

  Peace Pilgrim

  Spiritual, Phoenix, Age

  Peace Pilgrim (1992). “Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words”, p.87, Friends of Peace PIlgrim

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• I went into Harvard one way and came out a different person... It's the air at Harvard; it's like a Renaissance court.

  Erich Segal

  Air, Different, Way

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• The apartments of the rich are cabinets of curiosities: a conglomeration of classical antiquity, gothic, renaissance; Louis XIII... Something from every century but our own, a predicament that has arisen in no other period... so that we seem to be subsisting on the ruins of the past, as if the end of the world were near.

  Alfred de Musset

  Past, Curiosity, World

  "Confession d'un Enfant du Siécle". Book by Alfred de Musset, 1836.

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• Canada, the United States and Mexico, we developed these energy reserves that we have in this North American region. And you can see a not only driving down the cost of electricity but a major manufacturing boom in this country. Couple that with tax policy, reduction, reducing the corporate tax rate, and that I think a renaissance in manufacturing like we've never seen in this country and really drive the economy.

  Rick Perry

  Country, Couple, Thinking

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• The gothic is singular in this; one seems easily at home in the renaissance; one is not too strange in the Byzantine; as for the Roman, it is ourselves; and we could walk blindfolded through every chink and cranny of the Greek mind; all these styles seem modern when we come close to them; but the gothic gets away.

  Henry Adams

  Home, Greek, Style

  Henry Adams (2017). “Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres”, p.116, BookRix

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• About the scientific revolution: it "outshines everything since the rise of Christianity and reduces the Renaissance and Reformation to the rank of mere episodes".

  Herbert Butterfield

  Revolution, Christianity, Episodes

  Herbert Butterfield (1997). “The Origins of Modern Science”, p.7, Simon and Schuster

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• Every era of renaissance has come out of new freedoms for peoples. The coming renaissance will be greater than any in human history, for this time all the peoples of the earth will share in it.

  Pearl S. Buck

  Earth, Eras, Share

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• If you want to get an interesting perspective do not think of Hugh as a traditional 20th century physicist but more of a Renaissance man with interests and skills in many different areas. He was smart and lots of things interested him and he brought the same general conceptual methodology to solve them. The subject matter was not so important as the solution ideas.

  Hugh Everett III

  Smart, Men, Thinking

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• I think that Shakespeare had his male side and his female side extremely well developed. And this was a great quality of the Elizabethan, all-around Renaissance man. They were not afraid of their male side and their female side co-existing. This somewhere along the line got lost. And then it got misunderstood.

  Ben Kingsley

  Men, Thinking, Misunderstood

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• Patterned after an Italian Renaissance palace, it is 88 times as large and one millionth as valuable to the continuation of man. that Pentagon of traveling salesmen.

  Norman Mailer

  Italian, Men, Palaces

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• I had been reading about [John] Calvin for years and had been studying the English Renaissance for many more years, and it had never occurred to me to think of them together. I learned that Calvin was the most widely read writer in England in Shakespeare's lifetime. He was translated and published in many editions.

  Marilynne Robinson

  Reading, Thinking, Years

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• What I'm suggesting to you is that this could be a renaissance. We may be on the cusp of a future which could provide a tremendous leap forward for humanity.

  Jeremy Rifkin

  Humanity, May, Economy

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• How is the newcomer to deal with Rome? What is one to make of this marble rubble, this milk of wolves, this blood of Caesars, this sunrise of Renaissance, this baroquery of blown stone, this warm hive of Italians, this antipasto of civilization?

  Shana Alexander

  Rome, Blood, Civilization

  Shana Alexander (1970). “The feminine eye”, McCall Pub. Co

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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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• Two factors explain our success. One, MIT's renaissance after World War II as a federally supported research resource. Two, the mathematical revolution in macro- and micro-economic theory and statistics. This was overdue and inevitable, MIT was the logical place for it to flourish.

  Paul Samuelson

  War, Two, Mit

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• For me, anything can be music! I can get huge enjoyment and be moved totally by the purity and perfection of some Renaissance polyphony, but equally I can feel emotion in the expectant hum of a big old guitar amp just before the strings are hit.

  Steven Price

  Guitar, Perfection, Emotion

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• I live the life of the last Renaissance man.

  Hermann Goring

  Live Life, Men, Lasts

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• I know of nothing more significant than the awakening of men and women throughout our country to the desire to improve their houses. Call it what you will - awakening, development, American Renaissance - it is a most startling and promising condition of affairs.

  Elsie de Wolfe

  Country, Men, House

  Elsie De Wolfe (1975). “The house in good taste”, Ayer Co Pub

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• During the Renaissance, women were not allowed to attend art school. Everyone asks, where are the great women painters of the Renaissance?

  Karen DeCrow

  Art, School, Great Women

  Karen DeCrow (1974). “Sexist justice”, Random House (NY)

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• There should be a Transatlantic renaissance between the US and Europe based on shared prosperity, security, and values.

  John F. Kerry

  Europe, Prosperity, Should

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• Where there is no danger of overt action there is rarely any interference with freedom. That is why there has so often been amazing freedom of opinion within an aristocratic class which at the same time sanctioned the ruthless suppression of heterodox opinion among the common people. When the Inquisition was operating most effectively against the bourgeois who had lapsed into heresy, the princes of the Church and the nobles enjoyed the freedom of the Renaissance.

  Walter Lippmann

  Class, People, Church

  Walter Lippmann (2003). “Men of Destiny (Ppr)”, p.99, Transaction Publishers

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• Who is this Renaissance? Where did he come from? Who gave him permission to cram the Republic with his execrable daubs?

  Mark Twain

  Republic, Permission

  Mark Twain (2008). “The Innocents Abroad”, p.240, Velvet Element Books

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• Artists with a capital 'A' are at ease working in all areas of art, whether it is a contemporary abstract painting or work requiring methods and techniques of the Renaissance Masters.

  Igor Babailov

  Art, Technique, Abstract Painting

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• The great Christian art did not die because all possible forms had been used up; it died because faith was being transformed into piety. Now, the same conquest of the outside world that brought in our modern individualism, so different from that of the Renaissance, is by way of relativizing the individual. It is plain to see that man's faculty of transformation, which began by a remaking of the natural world, has ended by calling man himself into question.

  Andre Malraux

  Christian, Art, Men

  "The Voices of Silence". Book by Andre Malraux, Doubleday, Part IV, Chapter VI, 1953.

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• I'm a poet. I'm just a renaissance man in my heart. I can build shelves and I can write poetry.

  Anthony Mackie

  Writing, Heart, Men

  "'Captain America: Civil War': Anthony Mackie on What It Will Take For Him to Buy Grindr". Interview with Matt Goldberg, collider.com. March 9, 2016.

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