Premodern Quotes

#1. "Integrative" simply means that this approach attempts to include as many important truths from as many disciplines as possible-from East as well as the West, from premodern and modern and postmodern, from the hard sciences of physics to the tender sciences of spirituality.

Ken Wilber

#2. In my grandfather's premodern world, how he wanted to live was his choice, and the family's role was to make it possible.

Atul Gawande

#3. Evil is ancient, unchanging, and with us always. The more postmodern the West becomes - affluent, leisured, nursed on moral equivalence, utopian pacifism, and multicultural relativism - the more premodern the evil among us seems to arise in nihilistic response.

Victor Davis Hanson

#4. Since all premodern state ideology was inseparable from religion, warfare inevitably acquired a sacral element.

Karen Armstrong

#5. Again, I hear almost everyday from atheists who write off religion as primitive, premodern nonsense. I summon Aquinas, Augustine, Paul [of Tarsus], Teresa of Avila, Joseph Ratzinger, and Edith Stein-in all their intellectual rigor-as allies in the the struggle against this dismissive atheism.

Robert Barron

#6. The theological contacts between Jews and Christians during much of the premodern period are best characterized as disputations. Even when not engaged in face-to-face argumentation, Jews and Christians spoke about each other in essentially disputational terms.

David Novak

#7. Americans also seem to believe that the monarchy is a kind of mediaeval hangover, encumbered by premodern notions of decorum; the reality is that the British monarchy, for good or ill, is a modern political institution perhaps the first modern political institution.

Adam Gopnik

#8. The more you use your mind, the more you'll have to use.

George Amos Dorsey

#9. I like the Nights... not very long walks in 17:00 pm... and not very short distances.

Deyth Banger

#10. I was once in a battle trying to fight my way out when I realized it's better to sneak out.

Jarod Kintz

#11. When you're single, your weekend days are wide-open vistas that extend in every direction; in a relationship, they're like the sky over Manhattan: punctured, hemmed in, compressed.

Adelle Waldman

#12. I look at Verve who looks back with big eyes as if she knows what I'm debating. "Ok, you win. I'll make a fishing pole.

Stone Marshall

#13. Man is a multi-sensorial being. Occasionally he verbalizes ... and we must seriously examine the implications of the fact that man does not communicate by word alone.

Ray Birdwhistell

#14. I like the Kardashians. I'm a fan. I watch their show.

NeNe Leakes

#15. The audience usually has to be with you, I'm afraid. I always regarded myself as not even preaching to the converted, I was titillating the converted.

Tom Lehrer

#16. The Four Ideas: the Word, Time, Space, and the Atom. The ensuing effect is the idea of particles - the innumerable atoms, pair a or anu. These four - the Word, Time, Space, and the Atom - are therefore one and the same, and substantially nothing but mere ideas.

Sri Yukteswar Giri

#17. Often the best advice is not to seek advice.

Habeeb Akande

#18. Writers speak for those who are kept in silence

Isabel Allende

#19. When people say that this kind of fantasy fiction is escapist and evading the real world, well I think that's an evasion. It's actually trying to confront something that most people would rather not confront.

Tom Shippey

#20. Once you say "I can't", you suppress the left over passion in you. But you say "I can", you spark your inner power to make it happen. You can!

Israelmore Ayivor

#21. I'm afraid you're going to have a rather boring couple of weeks, Mr. Smith. If I were you, I'd buy a couple of good books. You're going to need them.

Mina Carter