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"The rules of navigation never navigated a ship. The rules of architecture never built a house."
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"Every man's work, whether it be literature, or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself."
"I was planning to go into architecture. But when I arrived, architecture was filled up. Acting was right next to it, so I signed up for acting instead."
"We shape our buildings thereafter they shape us."
"Rather than wait to see what the day or future holds, why not design and plan the future you want to experience?"
"Modern architecture predominately specializes in designing what are essentially dimly lit caves."
"We shape our buildings, thereafter they shape us."
"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."
"The reality of the building does not consist in the roof and walls but in the space within to be lived in."
"A man of eighty has outlived probably three new schools of painting, two of architecture and poetry and a hundred in dress."
"On inspection, Gaudi's architecture isn't whimsical at all."
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"It is a question of fact, whether the influence of motives be fixed by laws of nature, so that they shall always have the same effect in the same circumstances."
"Every indication of wisdom, taken from the effect, is equally an indication of power to execute what wisdom planned."
"But when, in the first setting out, he takes it for granted without proof, that distinctions found in the structure of all languages, have no foundation in nature; this surely is too fastidious a way of treating the common sense of mankind."
"And, if we have any evidence that the wisdom which formed the plan is in the man, we have the very same evidence, that the power which executed it is in him also."
"A philosopher is, no doubt, entitled to examine even those distinctions that are to be found in the structure of all languages... in that case, such a distinction may be imputed to a vulgar error, which ought to be corrected in philosophy."
"There is no greater impediment to the advancement of knowledge than the ambiguity of words."
"The rules of navigation never navigated a ship. The rules of architecture never built a house."
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