Recovered Model

Famous quotes containing the words recovered and/or model:

“Through our own recovered innocence we discern the innocence of our neighbors.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

“...that absolutely everything beloved and cherished of the bourgeoisie, the conservative, the cowardly, and the impotent—the State, family life, secular art and science—was consciously or unconsciously hostile to the religious idea, to the Church, whose innate tendency and permanent aim was the dissolution of all existing worldly orders, and the reconstitution of society after the model of the ideal, the communistic City of God.”
—Thomas Mann (1875–1955)