Architectonic Quotes

#1. Philosophy is the architectonic art and the philosopher the archetypal person

Richard H. Popkin

#2. A noble soul spreads even over a face in which the architectonic beauty is wanting an irresistible grace, and a often even triumphs over the natural disfavor.

Friedrich Schiller

#3. Human reason is by nature architectonic."

Critique of Pure Reason

Kant

#4. It's not that photography recaptures the world you have been in; more that it creates a new one: photographs are like Post-It Notes reminding us of the deep architectonic forms of space and thought.

Luke Davies

#5. A shadow archive and an archive of shadows, the literary architectonic demands a resistance to excessive illumination.

Akira Mizuta Lippit

#6. The Greeks had the greatest architectonic gifts. Every art has its climax at some point, and here architecture had its high point. Modeling and painting reached their climax elsewhere. Despite the gigantic pyramids, the most wonderful architecture appears in the Greek temple.

Rudolf Steiner

#7. Work on good prose has three steps: a musical stage when it is composed, an architectonic one when it is built, and a textile one when it is woven.

Walter Benjamin

#8. With Michelangelo anatomical science is transformed into music. With him the human body is architectonic matter for the construction of dreams.

Umberto Boccioni

#9. Whoever declares a child to be "delicate" thereby crowns and anoints a tyrant.

Robertson Davies

#10. The presidency has made every man who occupied it, no matter how small, bigger than he was; and no matter how big, not big enough for its demands.

Lyndon B. Johnson

#11. Landmines distinguish themselves because once they have been sown, once the soldier walks away from the weapon, the landmine cannot tell the difference between a soldier or a civilian - a woman, a child, a grandmother going out to collect firewood to make the family meal.

Jody Williams

#12. When you change the way you think about a situation, everything connected to that situation will change.

Rhonda Byrne

#13. I really shouldn't leave," Zach said, terrified what would happen the second he found himself alone with Nora.
"Come on, Zach. This party sucks and not in the good way. I've had pap smears more fun than this."
Zach covered a laugh with a cough.
"I must admit you do have a way with words.

Tiffany Reisz

#14. October: This is one of the peculiarly dangerous months to speculate in stocks. The others are July, January, September, April, November, May, March, June, December, August and February.

Mark Twain

#15. The most important things in life happen over conversations while eating.

Geoffrey Zakarian

#16. Architecture is an expression of values.

Norman Foster

#17. Like in a dream, everything seemed to be on the point of vanishing but at the same time ablaze with persistent reality.

Cesar Aira

#18. You don't throw away the love of a lifetime because someone gets injured - that's when you prove what your love's really made of.

Nicole Williams

#19. The last word smelled of desperation,and the old lawyer sighed. 'I can tell you that the law is an ocean of darkness and truth, and that lawyers are but vessels on the surface. We may pull one rope or another, but it is the client, in the end, who charts the course.

John Hart