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Architectural Theoretician Inspirational Quotes (350)

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To work our way towards a shared language once again, we must first learn how to discover patterns which are deep, and capable of generating life.
Christopher Alexander
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Death is not an event in life: we do not live to experience death.
Ludwig Wittgenstein
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If you use a trick in logic, whom can you be tricking other than yourself?
Ludwig Wittgenstein
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When one is frightened of the truth then it is never the whole truth that one has an inkling of.
Ludwig Wittgenstein
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A new word is like a fresh seed sown on the ground of the discussion.
Ludwig Wittgenstein
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A city is not an accident but the result of coherent visions and aims.
Leon Krier
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Talent is a spring from which fresh water always flows.- But this spring is worthless if no good use is made of it.
Ludwig Wittgenstein
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In our entrancement with the motorcar, we have forgotten how much more efficient and how much more flexible the footwalker is.
Lewis Mumford
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Logic is not a body of doctrine, but a mirror-image of the world. Logic is transcendental.
Ludwig Wittgenstein
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Dark' and 'blackish' are not the same concept.
Ludwig Wittgenstein
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When I investigate and when I discover that the forces of the heavens and the planets are within ourselves, then truly I seem to be living among the gods.
Leon Battista Alberti
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Like our attitude to love, truth and goodness, we seem to be confident about knowing what beauty is - certain, even dogmatic - until we think hard about the idea, whereupon all confidence flies away.
Charles Jencks
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The very people who shudder over the cruelty of the hunter are apt to forget that slaughter, in the grimmest sense of the word, is a process they entrust daily to the butcher and that unlike the game of the forests, even the dumbest creatures of the slaughterhouse know what is in store for them.
Lewis Mumford
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Speaking as a builder, if you start something, you must have a vision of the thing which arises from your instinct about preserving and enhancing what is there.
Christopher Alexander
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For life in the present there is no death. Death is not an event in life. It is not a fact in the world.
Ludwig Wittgenstein
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You can't think decently if you're not willing to hurt yourself
Ludwig Wittgenstein
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Burning in effigy. Kissing the picture of one's beloved... it aims at nothing at all we just behave this way and then we feel satisfied.
Ludwig Wittgenstein
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The face is the soul of the body.
Ludwig Wittgenstein
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I am showing my pupils details of an immense landscape which they cannot possibly know their way around.
Ludwig Wittgenstein
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It is one of the chief skills of the philosopher not to occupy himself with questions which do not concern him.
Ludwig Wittgenstein
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One of the functions of intelligence is to take account of the dangers that come from trusting solely to the intelligence.
Lewis Mumford
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The form is the possibility of the structure.
Ludwig Wittgenstein
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Many of the received models of modern architecture and planning owe their ultimate origin to the building code and public health reform movements of the second half of the 19th century.
Kenneth Frampton
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Only when love takes the lead will the earth, and life on earth, be safe again. And not until then.
Lewis Mumford
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