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Fifteenth Quotes

On the fifteenth century's art, faith, and lasting influence.

Most of these quotes examine the fifteenth century's Renaissance spirit, from its ambitious art to its attempts to reconcile Christianity with ancient Greek thought.

You know, sometimes if you work - if you do a lot of takes and you work long hours, for me, at least, there is a delirium that starts kicking in on the fifteenth hour, and that can help. Below...

Quotes by Zach Galifianakis

No account of the Renaissance can be complete without some notice of the attempt made by certain Italian scholars of the fifteenth century to reconcile Christianity with the religion of ancient Greece.

Quotes by Walter Pater

And the fifteenth century was an impassioned age, so ardent and serious in its pursuit of art that it consecrated everything with which art had to ad as a religious object.

Quotes by Walter Pater

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

Quotes by Walter Pater

Age Quotes

Failure to take note of the fact that the character of twentieth-century humanity differs from that of humanity in the fifteenth century, let alone before and at the time of the Mystery of Golgotha, is to sleep through the process...

Quotes by Rudolf Steiner

I wince at some of the things I did as the young wife of Canada's fifteenth prime minister, Pierre Elliott Trudeau.

Quotes by Margaret Trudeau

People are confusing me with a good actor when I'm just a good mimic. When someone asks me to play a nun from the fifteenth century, you'll see what I mean.

Quotes by Jemima Kirke

But I now entered on my fifteenth year - a sad epoch in the life of a slave girl. My master began to whisper foul words in my ear. Young as I was, I could not remain ignorant of their...

Quotes by Harriet Ann Jacobs

We are living in 1937, and our universities, I suggest, are not half-way out of the fifteenth century. We have made hardly any changes in our conception of university organization, education, graduation, for a century - for several centuries.

Quotes by H. G. Wells

Alone Quotes

And so by the fifteenth century, on October 8, the Europeans were looking for a new place to try to get to, and they came up with a new concept: the West.

Quotes by Dave Barry

Frequently Asked Questions

What historical period do these fifteenth quotes focus on?
Most focus on the fifteenth century, especially its Renaissance art and its attempts to blend Christian faith with ancient Greek thought.
Do the quotes describe the fifteenth century as artistic?
Yes, one quote calls it an impassioned age that treated art almost as a religious object, pursued with great seriousness.
Is Italian scholarship mentioned in relation to the fifteenth century?
Yes, one quote discusses Italian scholars of the period trying to reconcile Christianity with ancient Greek religious ideas.
Is there a modern quote among these historical ones?
Yes, one modern quote jokes about a delirium that sets in during a long fifteenth hour of filming, a lighter contrast to the historical entries.
What other quotes relate to art and history?
The art quotes collection offers more on artistic achievement across different eras.

A final quote jumps to the present, describing a fifteenth hour of filming where delirium sets in, showing the word can mark a century or simply a very long day.