"The reality of the building does not consist in the roof and walls but in the space within to be lived in."

Architecture, Space, Life, Essence

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"The reality of the building does not consist in the roof and walls but in the space within to be lived in."

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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."

Victor Hugo, French Author

Architecture, Thought, Ideas, Race

"If you put enough closets together, you have enough space for a room. If you put enough rooms together, you have enough room for a house. If you put enough houses together, you have space for a town, then a city, then a nation, then a world."

David Levithan, American Author

Architecture, Space, Structure, Development, Progress

"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."

Gilbert K. Chesterton, English Writer

Architecture, Acting, Planning, Right

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

Gilbert K. Chesterton, English Writer

Architecture, Art, Sunset

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

Steven Magee, British Author

Architecture, Design, Environment, Darkness

"You can just drift unhappily towards this vision of heaven on earth, and ultimately that is what architecture is a vision of: Heaven on earth, at it's best."

Ben Nicholson, British Artist

Architecture, Vision, Earth, Heaven

"We shape our buildings thereafter they shape us."

Winston Churchill, English Statesman

Architecture, Influence, Creativity, Life

"I would fix other people's lines if they asked me on occasion. The hard part of writing is the architecture of it, getting the story and structuring it. Not the tweaking of lines."

William Devane, American Actor

Architecture, People, Writing

"Architecture, of all the arts, is the one which acts the most slowly, but the most surely, on the soul."

Ernest Dimnet, French Clergyman

Architecture, Soul

"I would like my architecture to inspire people to use their own resources, to move into the future."

Tadao Ando, Japanese Architect

Architecture, People, Future

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"Go to the people. Live with them. Learn from them. Love them. Startwith what they know. Build with what they have. But with the bestleaders, when the work is done, the task accomplished, the people willsay 'We have done this ourselves."

Leadership

"The ruler attains wholeness in the correct governance of the people."

Leadership

"As soon as you have made a thought, laugh at it."

Mind

"Be careful what you water your dreams with. Water them with worry and fear and you will produce weeds that choke the life from your dream. Water them with optimism and solutions and you will cultivate success. Always be on the lookout for ways to turn a problem into an opportunity for success. Always be on the lookout for ways to nurture your dream."

Inspirational

"Love is of all passions the strongest, for it attacks simultaneously the head, the heart and the senses."

Love

"It is better to do one's own duty, however defective it may be, than to follow the duty of another, however well one may perform it. He who does his duty as his own nature reveals it, never sins."

Integrity

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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."

"If you put enough closets together, you have enough space for a room. If you put enough rooms together, you have enough room for a house. If you put enough houses together, you have space for a town, then a city, then a nation, then a world."

"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."

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

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

"You can just drift unhappily towards this vision of heaven on earth, and ultimately that is what architecture is a vision of: Heaven on earth, at it's best."

"We shape our buildings thereafter they shape us."

"I would fix other people's lines if they asked me on occasion. The hard part of writing is the architecture of it, getting the story and structuring it. Not the tweaking of lines."

"Architecture, of all the arts, is the one which acts the most slowly, but the most surely, on the soul."

"I would like my architecture to inspire people to use their own resources, to move into the future."

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"He who is contented is rich."

"He who has not faith in others shall find no faith in them."

"Be the chief but never the lord."

"If you wish to be out front, then act as if you were behind."

"Go to the people. Live with them. Learn from them. Love them. Startwith what they know. Build with what they have. But with the bestleaders, when the work is done, the task accomplished, the people willsay 'We have done this ourselves."

"The ruler attains wholeness in the correct governance of the people."

"As soon as you have made a thought, laugh at it."

"Love is of all passions the strongest, for it attacks simultaneously the head, the heart and the senses."

"It is better to do one's own duty, however defective it may be, than to follow the duty of another, however well one may perform it. He who does his duty as his own nature reveals it, never sins."