#renaissance

Nobody can understand the greatness of the thirteenth century, who does not realize that it was a great growth of new things produced by a living thing. In that sense it was really bolder and freer than what we call the renaissance, which was a resurrection of old things discovered in a dead thing... and the Gospel according to St. Thomas... was a new thrust like the titanic thrust of Gothic engineering; and its strength was in a God that makes all things new. ↗

— G.K. Chesterton

#civilization #culture #europe #history #renaissance

Tool lists from the fourteenth century indicate that pitchforks, spades, axes, plows, and harrows, which have teeth to break up soil, were widely used. Both plows and harrows could be pushed or pulled by peasants. However, during the Renaissance an increasing number of farms used horses for such tasks, as well as for pulling carts that would take surplus food to market in nearby towns. ↗

— Patricia D. Netzley

#food

Man is mortal. This is his fate. Man pretends not to be mortal. That is his sin. Man is a creature of time and place, whose perspectives and insights are invariably conditioned by his immediate circumstances. ↗

— Sylvan Barnet

#men #mortal #renaissance #men

A nation that makes a great distinction between its scholars and its warriors will have its laws made by cowards and its wars fought by fools. ↗

— Thucydides

#well-roundedness #law

What we need in America is a renaissance. We need to go forward by going backward. ↗

— Stanley Crouch

#backward #forward #go #going #need

Destroying rainforest for economic gain is like burning a Renaissance painting to cook a meal. ↗

— E. O. Wilson

#cook #destroying #economic #gain #like

I went to a restaurant that serves "breakfast at any time". So I ordered French Toast during the Renaissance. ↗

— Steven Wright

#breakfast #during #french #i #ordered

Keep in my mind my dad didn't become a huge, huge mega actor until I was halfway through high school - so right around the time he's going through his big renaissance is right when I'm starting to do my high school revolting. ↗

— Colin Hanks

#around #become #big #dad #going

We will continue to count on your unwavering support and commitment to working with leaders of our continent in bringing about the desired renaissance of Africa. ↗

— Thabo Mbeki

#africa #bringing #commitment #continent #continue

But it has been a long process because I'm kind of a renaissance person. ↗

— Ronnie Montrose

#been #i #kind #long #long process