"Architecture has recorded the great ideas of the human race. Not only every religious symbol, but every human thought has its page in that vast book."

Architecture, Thought, Ideas, Race

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"Architecture has recorded the great ideas of the human race. Not only every religious symbol, but every human thought has its page in that vast book."

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"The intellectual architecture means focusing on doing great work instead of focusing on agency politics."

Jay Chiat, American Businessman

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"We shape our buildings thereafter they shape us."

Winston Churchill, English Statesman

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"Architecture is the reaching out for the truth."

Louis Kahn, American Architect

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"Washington, D.C., has everything that Rome, Paris and London have in the way of great architecture - great power bases. Washington has obelisks and pyramids and underground tunnels and great art and a whole shadow world that we really don't see."

Dan Brown, American Author

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"Today's developer is a poor substitute for the committed entrepreneur of the last century for whom the work of architecture represented a chance to celebrate the worth of his enterprise."

Arthur Erickson, Canadian Architect

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"Solomon's temple also was designed to increase the attractiveness of the city of his residence."

Julius Wellhausen, German Educator

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"Architecture is a science arising out of many other sciences, and adorned with much and varied learning; by the help of which a judgment is formed of those works which are the result of other arts."

Marcus V. Pollio, American Architect

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"Japanese traditional architecture is created based on these conditions. This is the reason you have a very high degree of connection between the outside and inside in architecture."

Tadao Ando, Japanese Architect

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"But those musics do not address the larger kind of architecture in time that classical music does, whatever each one of us knows that classical music must mean."

Michael Tilson Thomas, American Musician

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"So what we have tried to do in our later buildings is to try to be completely consistent, as a painter is consistent or as a sculptor is consistent. Architecture also must be very consistent."

Minoru Yamasaki, American Architect

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"Life's greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved."

Happiness

"In the morning, when he entered my room, I grumbled, but he was like the sunlight to me, all the same. One cannot defend oneself against those brats. They take hold of you, they hold you fast, they never let you go again. The truth is, that there never was a cupid like that child."

Love

"No one knows like a woman how to say things which are at once gentle and deep."

Empowerment

"To attempt, to brave, to persist, and persevere, to be faithful to one's self, to wrestle with destiny, to astound the catastrophe by the slight fear which is causes us, now to confront unjust power, again to insult intoxicated victory, to hold firm and withstand -- such is the example which nations need and the light which electrifies them."

Courage

"Great perils have this beauty, that they bring to light the fraternity of strangers."

Beauty

"I propose a toast to mirth; be merry! Let us complete our course of law by folly and eating! Indigestion and the digest. let Justinian be the male, and Feasting, the female! Joy the depths! Live, O creation! The world is a great diamond. I am happy. The birds are astonishing. What a festival everywhere! The nightingale is a gratuitous Elleviou.Summer, I salute thee!"

Celebration

"He said to himself that he really had not suffered enough to deserve such radiant happiness, and he thanked God, in the depths of his soul, for having permitted that he, a miserable man, should be so loved by this innocent being."

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"The intellectual architecture means focusing on doing great work instead of focusing on agency politics."

"We shape our buildings thereafter they shape us."

"Architecture is the reaching out for the truth."

"Washington, D.C., has everything that Rome, Paris and London have in the way of great architecture - great power bases. Washington has obelisks and pyramids and underground tunnels and great art and a whole shadow world that we really don't see."

"Today's developer is a poor substitute for the committed entrepreneur of the last century for whom the work of architecture represented a chance to celebrate the worth of his enterprise."

"Solomon's temple also was designed to increase the attractiveness of the city of his residence."

"Architecture is a science arising out of many other sciences, and adorned with much and varied learning; by the help of which a judgment is formed of those works which are the result of other arts."

"Japanese traditional architecture is created based on these conditions. This is the reason you have a very high degree of connection between the outside and inside in architecture."

"But those musics do not address the larger kind of architecture in time that classical music does, whatever each one of us knows that classical music must mean."

"So what we have tried to do in our later buildings is to try to be completely consistent, as a painter is consistent or as a sculptor is consistent. Architecture also must be very consistent."

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"Life's greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved."

"In the morning, when he entered my room, I grumbled, but he was like the sunlight to me, all the same. One cannot defend oneself against those brats. They take hold of you, they hold you fast, they never let you go again. The truth is, that there never was a cupid like that child."

"Pain is as diverse as man. One suffers as one can."

"Men become accustomed to poison by degrees."

"To love is to act."

"No one knows like a woman how to say things which are at once gentle and deep."

"Great perils have this beauty, that they bring to light the fraternity of strangers."

"He said to himself that he really had not suffered enough to deserve such radiant happiness, and he thanked God, in the depths of his soul, for having permitted that he, a miserable man, should be so loved by this innocent being."