Christopher Wren famous quotes

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A time will come when men will stretch out their eyes. They should see planets like our Earth
-- Christopher Wren

#Clever #Future #Eye
Architecture aims at Eternity
-- Christopher Wren

#Architecture #Eternity #Aim
Choose an author as you choose a friend.
-- Christopher Wren

#Reading #You Choose
The secret of architectural excellence is to translate the proportions of a dachshund into bricks, mortar and marble.
-- Christopher Wren

#Secret #Excellence #Dachshunds
Mathematical demonstrations being built upon the impregnable Foundations of Geometry and Arithmetick are the only truths that can sink into the Mind of Man, void of all Uncertainty; and all other Discourses participate more or less of Truth according as their Subjects are more or less capable of Mathematical Demonstration.
-- Christopher Wren

#Men #Mind #Void
In things to be seen at once, much variety makes confusion, another vice of beauty. In things that are not seen at once, and have no respect one to another, great variety is commendable, provided this variety transgress not the rules of optics and geometry.
-- Christopher Wren

#Respect #Confusion #Vices
Architecture has its political Use; publick Buildings being the Ornament of a Country; it establishes a Nation, draws People and Commerce; makes the People love their native Country, which Passion is the Original of all great Actions in a Common-wealth.... Architecture aims at Eternity.
-- Christopher Wren

#Country #Passion #People
He was of opinion that what we now vulgarly call the Gothick, ought properly and truly be named Saracenick Architecture refined by the Christians.
-- Christopher Wren

#Christian #Opinion #Architecture
Variety of uniformities makes complete beauty.
-- Christopher Wren

#Uniformity #Variety

Your fingertips across my skin, the palm trees swaying in the wind - images. You sang me Spanish lullabies, the sweetest sadness in your eyes - clever trick. / I cannot go to the ocean, I cannot drive the streets at night, I cannot wake up in the morning without you on my mind, so you're gone and I'm haunted, and I bet you are just - fine. Did I make it that easy to walk right in and out of my life?
I would love for people to think that I am as quick, clever, smart and heroic as the characters that I write, but those characters are characters.
When I was young, I admired clever people. Now that I am old, I admire kind people.
Yet, isn't it strange, isn't it weird, how we can KNOW that someone is not behaving in the way we imagine, and at the same time we can be totally convinced that he is! How clever the human mind is, that it can accept two contradictory things as 'facts.' Yes, I know that in this case one 'fact' was untrue. But the human mind can KNOW something is untrue and still accept it as a 'fact,' and act on it as if it were true.
Man is a clever animal who behaves like an imbecile.
Fifteen per cent of the population believe the moon landing was actually staged in a movie lot in Arizona and somewhat fewer still believe the Earth is flat. I think they all get together with the global warming deniers on a Saturday night and party
Louis Armstrong playing trumpet on the Judgment Day.
What we see as death, empty space, or nothingness is only the trough between the crests of this endlessly waving ocean. It is all part of the illusion that there should seem to be something to be gained in the future, and that there is an urgent necessity to go on and on until we get it. Yet just as there is no time but the present, and no one except the all-and-everything, there is never anything to be gainedâ€”though the zest of the game is to pretend that there is.
Look not in my eyes, for fear They mirror true the sight I see, And there you find your face too clear And love it and be lost like me.
Order, thou eye of action.

Christopher Wren famous quotes

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