"It's not so much about form versus functionality. Rather, it's about doing both and doing them a lot and doing them well-and that's how we should be talking about architecture."

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Joshua Prince-Ramus

#Talking Quotes #Architecture Quotes #Form Quotes

“The people of England will curse themselves for having preferred ruin from Churchill to peace from Hitler.”

Source : Broadcast on Radio Bremen, August 2, 1940.
“To reach satisfaction in all desire its possession in nothing, To come to the knowledge of all desire the knowledge of nothing. To come to possess all desire the possession of nothing. To arrive at being all desire to be nothing.”

Source : Saint John of the Cross, Kieran Kavanaugh (1987). “John of the Cross: Selected Writings”, p.78, Paulist Press
“It was an important part of Mendelssohn's philosophical and religious view that the traditional rationalist proofs for God's existence should be sound an convincing. Kant thought they were not. So Kant's critique was world-shaking for Mendelssohn.”
“The denial of death is openly acknowledged as a significant trait of our culture. The tears of the bereaved have become comparable to the excretions of the diseased”
“We must dare to invent the future”
“I am a librarian. I discovered me in the library. I went to find me in the library. Before I fell in love with libraries, I was just a six-year-old boy. The library fueled all of my curiosities, from dinosaurs to ancient Egypt. When I graduated from high school in 1938, I began going to the library three nights a week. I did this every week for almost ten years and finally, in 1947, around the time I got married, I figured I was done. So I graduated from the library when I was twenty-seven. I discovered that the library is the real school.”
“Yet the world is the same as it always was. It is merely that you see it with new eyes.”
“Conversion comes as we live pure and virtuous lives and enjoy the companionship of the Holy Ghost.”

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