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"The center of Western culture is Greece, and we have never lost our ties with the architectural concepts of that ancient civilization."
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"The first human who hurled an insult instead of a stone was the founder of civilization."
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"A civilization is a heritage of beliefs, customs, and knowledge slowly accumulated in the course of centuries, elements difficult at times to justify by logic, but justifying themselves as paths when they lead somewhere, since they open up for man his inner distance."
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"A civilized man is one who will give a serious answer to a serious question. Civilization itself is a certain sane balance of values."
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"This civilization is the impact of the world's consumption behavior."
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"Without civilization, we would not turn into animals, but vegetables."
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"Civilization is communication. When that which should be expressed and transmitted is lost, civilization comes to an end."
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"Mankind is not likely to salvage civilization unless he can evolve a system of good and evil which is independent of heaven and hell."
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"In the world of primitive savages, religion and bigotry go hand in hand. But, in the world of civilized humans, religion and reason must go hand in hand."
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"Old people have wisdom but not energy; young people have energy but not wisdom; energy and wisdom must be in the same body to create a much better civilisation! To do this, we will either give energy to the old or we will give wisdom to the young and for now the latter seems a more plausible action!"
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"The human civilization has gone extremely so far; that in return, we have lost the line between stupidity and spirituality."
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"It is thought that the changeover from hunter to farmer was a slow, gradual process."
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"The largest and most influential houses chiefly demonstrate the aloofness of the French approach."
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"The garden, by design, is concerned with both the interior and the land beyond the garden."
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"In Japanese art, space assumed a dominant role and its position was strengthened by Zen concepts."
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"Like flats of today, terraces of houses gained a certain anonymity from identical facades following identical floor plans and heights."
Houses
"It was only from an inner calm that man was able to discover and shape calm surroundings."
Man
"The Japanese put houses in among the trees and allowed nature to gain the ascendancy in any composition."
Nature
"The exterior cannot do without the interior since it is from this, as from life, that it derives much of its inspiration and character."
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"Of all the lessons most relevant to architecture today, Japanese flexibility is the greatest."
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"Land is the secure ground of home, the sea is like life, the outside, the unknown."
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