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Top 15 Russell Shorto Quotes (2024 Update)

Russell Shorto Quote: “We are graced with a godlike ability to transcend time and space in our minds but are chained to death.”

1. “We are graced with a godlike ability to transcend time and space in our minds but are chained to death.”

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Russell Shorto Quote: “You could look at the work of any Dutch master for an idea of the morning light we cycle through. There is a white cleanness to it, a rinsed quality. It’s a sober light, without, for example, any of the orange particulate glow you get from the Mediterranean sun.”

2. “You could look at the work of any Dutch master for an idea of the morning light we cycle through. There is a white cleanness to it, a rinsed quality. It’s a sober light, without, for example, any of the orange particulate glow you get from the Mediterranean sun.”

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Russell Shorto Quote: “Manhattan is where America began.”

3. “Manhattan is where America began.”

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Russell Shorto Quote: “It was the Dutch of this era who invented the idea of the home as a personal, intimate space; one might say they invented coziness.”

4. “It was the Dutch of this era who invented the idea of the home as a personal, intimate space; one might say they invented coziness.”

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Russell Shorto Quote: “They had applied their doubts to the very head that had introduced doubt as a tool for advancing knowledge. And in the end they gave the head a nod.”

5. “They had applied their doubts to the very head that had introduced doubt as a tool for advancing knowledge. And in the end they gave the head a nod.”

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Russell Shorto Quote: “The Dutch were among the earliest adopters of a new technology – the printed book – and.”

6. “The Dutch were among the earliest adopters of a new technology – the printed book – and.”

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Russell Shorto Quote: “You know what I’ve often said, ever since Auschwitz. Life is absurd. It has no meaning. But it has beauty, and wonder, and we have to enjoy that.” Her hand was still on his cheek, her arm.”

7. “You know what I’ve often said, ever since Auschwitz. Life is absurd. It has no meaning. But it has beauty, and wonder, and we have to enjoy that.” Her hand was still on his cheek, her arm.”

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Russell Shorto Quote: “No,” he answered. If Stanton figured he was teaching the slave a lesson, Venture knew that by staying locked up he was depriving Stanton of his labor. He would stay in chains. “Well then, I will send you to the West Indies or banish you,” Stanton replied, “for I am resolved not to keep you.” Conditions in a Caribbean plantation meant a virtual death sentence. Venture was ready for this. “I crossed the waters to come here,” he shot back, “and I am willing to cross them to return.”

8. “No,” he answered. If Stanton figured he was teaching the slave a lesson, Venture knew that by staying locked up he was depriving Stanton of his labor. He would stay in chains. “Well then, I will send you to the West Indies or banish you,” Stanton replied, “for I am resolved not to keep you.” Conditions in a Caribbean plantation meant a virtual death sentence. Venture was ready for this. “I crossed the waters to come here,” he shot back, “and I am willing to cross them to return.”

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Russell Shorto Quote: “For individual freedom can come about only, can be conceived only, if there is some sense of security to life.”

9. “For individual freedom can come about only, can be conceived only, if there is some sense of security to life.”

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Russell Shorto Quote: “As happens so often in history at the dying of one age and the birth of another, an era of phenomenal ugliness, strife, and chaos was about to unfold.”

10. “As happens so often in history at the dying of one age and the birth of another, an era of phenomenal ugliness, strife, and chaos was about to unfold.”

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Russell Shorto Quote: “As to the Dutch, he despised them. For that.”

11. “As to the Dutch, he despised them. For that.”

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Russell Shorto Quote: “Instead, power went to those who made things happen: businessmen and local magistrates. Over time, human nature being what it is, these men would create a kind of nobility, sometimes even buying titles from cash-poor foreigners, but this in itself underscores the point. Upward mobility was part of the Dutch character: if you worked hard and were smart, you rose in stature. Today that is a byword of a healthy society; in the seventeenth century it was weird.”

12. “Instead, power went to those who made things happen: businessmen and local magistrates. Over time, human nature being what it is, these men would create a kind of nobility, sometimes even buying titles from cash-poor foreigners, but this in itself underscores the point. Upward mobility was part of the Dutch character: if you worked hard and were smart, you rose in stature. Today that is a byword of a healthy society; in the seventeenth century it was weird.”

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Russell Shorto Quote: “Henry Hudson was in his forties when he stepped into the light of history, a seasoned mariner, a man with a strong and resourceful wife and three sons, a man born and raised not only to the sea but to the quest for a northern passage to Asia, who, weaned from infancy on the legends of his predecessors, probably couldn’t help but be obsessed by it.”

13. “Henry Hudson was in his forties when he stepped into the light of history, a seasoned mariner, a man with a strong and resourceful wife and three sons, a man born and raised not only to the sea but to the quest for a northern passage to Asia, who, weaned from infancy on the legends of his predecessors, probably couldn’t help but be obsessed by it.”

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Russell Shorto Quote: “Embedded in this outlook is an idea of the body as a machine, so that illness is seen as a breakdown of the machine, healing involves repairing the broken parts, and a doctor is a kind of mechanic with medications as his or her tools.”

14. “Embedded in this outlook is an idea of the body as a machine, so that illness is seen as a breakdown of the machine, healing involves repairing the broken parts, and a doctor is a kind of mechanic with medications as his or her tools.”

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Russell Shorto Quote: “This book tells the story of that moment in time. It is a story of high adventure set during the age of exploration – when Francis Drake, Henry Hudson, and Captain John Smith were expanding the boundaries of the world, and Shakespeare, Rembrandt, Galileo, Descartes, Mercator, Vermeer, Harvey, and Bacon were revolutionizing human thought and expression.”

15. “This book tells the story of that moment in time. It is a story of high adventure set during the age of exploration – when Francis Drake, Henry Hudson, and Captain John Smith were expanding the boundaries of the world, and Shakespeare, Rembrandt, Galileo, Descartes, Mercator, Vermeer, Harvey, and Bacon were revolutionizing human thought and expression.”

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Russell Shorto Quote: “Opinions differ on the question of whether a golden age is something you can experience while it’s happening or whether it only comes into focus on reflection... no matter how grand and prosperous and momentous the time in which you are living may be, its grandeur is inevitably stained by the incessant drabness of the present.”

16. “Opinions differ on the question of whether a golden age is something you can experience while it’s happening or whether it only comes into focus on reflection... no matter how grand and prosperous and momentous the time in which you are living may be, its grandeur is inevitably stained by the incessant drabness of the present.”

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