160 Quotes About Medieval

The eye through which I see God is the same eye through which God sees me; my eye and God's eye are one eye, one seeing, one knowing, one love.

Most of the tools from medieval times were extensions of the physical self. Tools are now extensions of the mental self.

So, as long as you can get enough to eat, and can avoid all the various lethal infections, the dangers of childbirth, lead poisoning, and the extreme violence, you should live a long time.All you have to worry about are the doctors.

It seemed to me that, no matter what endeavor I was involved in, I was to be something of a sham.

Nevertheless, there is a queer quality in that time [The Medieval Age]; which, while it was international was also internal and intimate. War, in the wide modern sense, is possible, not because more men disagree, but because more men agree.

Compared to the routine, more coarse, carving of the Apostles and Elders, the monstrous rout seems to have been produced by a more expert sculptor, suggesting a scale of value that did not elevate the Divine archetype over the debased animal.

The pride the duchess had felt seemed to leave her and become absorbed through the king’s eyes, where he picked it apart.

There were hundreds of them, all dressed like silver dragons, all with long, streaming capes that looked like great wings, flapping and twirling as they fought.

When the time comes… I will be the one to have you killed. Whether by my hand or another’s, I will make sure that you do not run forever.