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"By far the greatest and most admirable form of wisdom is that needed to plan and beautify cities and human communities."
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"We are stymied by regulations, limited choice and the threat of litigation. Neither consultants nor industry itself provide research which takes architecture forward."

"Nothing - really, absolutely nothing - says more about Victorian Britain and its capacity for brilliance than that the century's most daring and iconic building was entrusted to a gardener."

"It seems a fantastic paradox, but it is nevertheless a most important truth, that no architecture can be truly noble which is not imperfect."

"In architecture the pride of man his triumph over gravitation his will to power assume a visible form. Architecture is a sort of oratory of power by means of forms."

"There are no rules of architecture for a castle in the clouds."

"Modern architecture predominately specializes in designing what are essentially dimly lit caves."

"The way of architecture is the quiet voice that underlies it and has guided it from the beginning."

"All architecture is great architecture after sunset; perhaps architecture is really a nocturnal art, like the art of fireworks."

"Architecture doesn't come from theory. You don't think your way through a building."

"Every man's work, whether it be literature, or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself."
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"Four things belong to a judge: to hear courteously to answer wisely to consider soberly and to decide impartially."


"A system of morality which is based on relative emotional values is a mere illusion, a thoroughly vulgar conception which has nothing sound in it and nothing true."


"He is a man of courage who does not run away, but remains at his post and fights against the enemy."


"If it were said that without such bones and sinews and all the rest of them I should not be able to do what I think is right, it would be true; but to say that it is because of them that I do what I am doing, and not through choice of what is best - although my actions are controlled by Mind - would be a very lax and inaccurate form of expression."
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