Renaissance Quotes - Page 8

• It's almost like a renaissance of racism we have.

  Donna Brazile

  Racism

  "Gov. Chris Christie and DNC Chair Donna Brazile". "This Week", abcnews.go.com. August 28, 2016.

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• The Renaissance had resulted in the emancipation of the individual, in making him feel that the universe had no other purpose than his happiness. This brought an entirely new answer to the question, 'Why should I do this or that?' It used to be, 'Because self-instituted authority command you.' The answer now was, 'Because it is good for men.' In this lies our greatest debt to the Renaissance, that it instituted the welfare of men as the end of all action.

  Bernard Berenson

  Lying, Men, Self

  Bernard Berenson (1968). “Venetian and North Italian Schools”

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• I don't think I am going to do pictures which are anything like Renaissance art.

  Nan Goldin

  Art, Thinking, Renaissance Art

  Source: foggysapphires.wordpress.com

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• I think there's some great stuff coming. I do feel that. I think we have reached our Harlem Renaissance.

  Sandra Cisneros

  Thinking, Stuff, Harlem

  "Talking in Our Pajamas: A Conversation with Sandra Cisneros on Finding Your Voice, Fear of Highways, Tacos, Travel, and the Need for Peace in the World". Interview with Ruth Behar, quod.lib.umich.edu. 2008.

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• After the Dutch left Indonesia, after the Indonesians got loose in 1945, the freemen were not as widely used, but then they went through a real Renaissance where military dictatorship took over.

  Joshua Oppenheimer

  Military, Real, Dutch

  Source: collider.com

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• We have made a great effort to maintain all levels of Buddhist education; it has helped us have a kind of renaissance, really.

  Dalai Lama

  Buddhist, Effort, Levels

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• Development of Western science is based on two great achievements: the invention of the formal logical system (in Euclidean geometry) by the Greek philosophers, and the discovery of the possibility to find out causal relationships by systematic experiment (during the Renaissance). In my opinion, one has not to be astonished that the Chinese sages have not made these steps. The astonishing thing is that these discoveries were made at all.

  Albert Einstein

  Science, Discovery, Two

  Letter to J.S. Switzer on April 23, 1953. "The Scientific Revolution: A Historiographical Inquiry". Book by H. Floris Cohen, p. 234, 1994.

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• We have a great obligation not only to look after our own interests, but to engage and to make sure that this meeting is at the beginning of a renaissance of trust.

  Klaus Schwab

  Inspiring, Looks, Economic

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• As we mourn President Mandela’s passing we must ask ourselves the fundamental question - what shall we do to respond to the tasks of building a democratic, non-racial, non-sexist and prosperous South Africa, a people-centred society free of hunger, poverty, disease and inequality, as well as Africa’s renaissance, to whose attainment President Nelson Mandela dedicated his whole life?

  Thabo Mbeki

  Hunger Poverty, People, President

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• The three values which men had held for centuries and which have now collapsed are: mysticism, collectivism, altruism. Mysticism — as a cultural power — died at the time of the Renaissance. Collectivism — as a political ideal — died in World War II. As to altruism — it has never been alive. It is the poison of death in the blood of Western civilization, and men survived it only to the extent to which they neither believed nor practiced it.

  Ayn Rand

  War, Men, Civilization

  "Philosophy: Who Needs It".

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• 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.

  Peter Lewis Allen

  Library, Research, Labs

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• If theory is the role of the architect, then such beautiful proofs are the role of the craftsman. Of course, as with the great renaissance artists, such roles are not mutually exclusive. A great cathedral has both structural impressiveness and delicate detail. A great mathematical theory should similarly be beautiful on both large and small scales.

  Michael Atiyah

  Beauty, Beautiful, Art

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• National liberation, national renaissance, the restoration of nationhood to the people, commonwealth: whatever may be the headings used or the new formulas introduced, decolonization is always a violent phenomenon.

  Frantz Fanon

  People, Restoration, May

  The Wretched of the Earth "Concerning Violence" (1961) (translation by Constance Farrington)

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• Shakespeare wouldn't have been any good if he'd stayed in Stratford. He had to go to London to be bathed in the full current of the Renaissance.

  John Dos Passos

  Literature, London, Currents

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• The Renaissance of the fifteenth century was, in many things, great rather by what it designed then by what it achieved.

  Walter Pater

  Century

  Walter Pater (2013). “The Renaissance: Studies in Art and Poetry”, p.26, Courier Corporation

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• We have entered, almost without noticing, an age of exploration and discovery unparalleled since the Renaissance.

  Carl Sagan

  Discovery, Innovation, Age

  Carl Sagan (2011). “Broca's Brain: Reflections on the Romance of Science”, p.186, Ballantine Books

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• We may affirm, then, that the main drift of the later Renaissance was away from a humanism that favored a free expansion toward a humanism that was in the highest degree disciplinary and selective.

  Irving Babbitt

  Expansion, Degrees, May

  Irving Babbitt (1908). “Literature and the American college: essays in defense of the humanities”

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• Depth, in a pictorial, plastic sense, is not created by the arrangement of objects one after another toward a vanishing point, in the sense of the Renaissance perspective, but on the contrary (and in absolute denial of this doctrine) by the creation of forces in the sense of push and pull . Nor is depth created by tonal gradation (another doctrine of the academician which, at its culmination, degraded the use of color to a mere function of expressing dark and light).

  Hans Hofmann

  Dark, Color, Light

  Lowery Stokes Sims, Hans Hofmann, Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.) (1999). “Hans Hofmann in the Metropolitan Museum of Art”, Metropolitan Museum of Art

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• Our approach to education has remained largely unchanged since the Renaissance: From middle school through college, most teaching is done by an instructor lecturing to a room full of students, only some of them paying attention.

  Daphne Koller

  Teaching, School, College

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• As one who loves literature, art, music and history, I've been deeply rooted in the Harlem Renaissance for many years.

  Debbie Allen

  Art, Years, Literature

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• Can't decide which life or career path is right for you? Maybe you don't have to! In The Renaissance Soul, Margaret Lobenstine offers inspiration, advice, and practical tips for people with more than one burning passion.

  Laurence Boldt

  Inspiration, Passion, Careers

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• Dali was Renaissance man converted to psychoanalysis.

  Salvador Dali

  Men, Renaissance Man, Psychoanalysis

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• Exploration belongs to the Renaissance, travel to the bourgeois age, tourism to our proletarian moment.The explorer seeks theundiscovered, the traveler that which has been discovered by the mind working in history,the tourist that which has been discovered by entrepreneurship and prepared for him by the arts of mass publicity.If the explorer moves toward the risks of the formless and the unknown, the tourist moves toward the security of pure cliché. It is between these two poles that the traveler mediates.

  Paul Fussell

  Art, Travel, Moving

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• Good design is a Renaissance attitude that combines tech, cognitive science, human need and beauty to produce something.

  Paola Antonelli

  Attitude, Design, Needs

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• We'll be potters, we'll be painters, we'll be textile designers, we'll be jewelers, we'll be a little this, a little of that. We were going to be the renaissance people [when we were young].

  Warren MacKenzie

  People, Potters, Textiles

  Source: www.aaa.si.edu

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