Forsaken Fortress

Famous quotes containing the words forsaken and/or fortress:

    “There are no instances known to me of cultures having forsaken Truth or renounced the understanding in its widest sense.”
    —Johan Huizinga (1872–1945)

    “a fortress against ideas and against the
    Shuddering insidious shock of the theory-vendors
    The little sardine men crammed in a monster toy
    Who tilt their aggregate beast against our crumbling Troy.”
    —Louis MacNeice (1907–1963)