Daniel Schotman

“One who cares to concider the brilliant discoveries of this age will scarcely doubt that ours is an age of gold, it brought back into the light the liberal disciplines that had nearly been extinguised - grammar, poetry, oratory, painting, sculpture, architecture, music and it happended in Florence, where Platonic learning was recalled from the darkness into the light.”
― Marcilio Ficino

“lngenuas didicissefideliter artes, Emollit mores, necsinit esseferos.' (A faithful study of the liberal arts humanizes character and permits it not to be cruel).”
― Ovid

“Wovon man nicht sprechen kann, darüber muss man schweigen.”
― Ludwig Wittgenstein, Tractatus Logico Philosophicus

“If we were to try a provisional definition : history is the form in which a culture becomes conscious of its past. All would go into this.' Quoted by Frank Ankersmit as the opening of his book 'Historical Respresentation' (2001)”
― Johan Huizinga