Augustus Pugin Quotes

#1. It is alright to decorate construction but never construct decoration.

Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin

#2. As Samuel Johnson said, To hear complaints is wearisome alike to the wretched and the happy.

Gretchen Rubin

#3. Self-interest, be it enlightened, works indirectly for the public good.

William H. Prescott

#4. There is a lot of pain still to be had in the equity markets, particularly aimed at the risky end of the spectrum. We think the fair value on the market is about a third lower in the U.S ...

Jeremy Grantham

#5. I'm not so sure it's so civilized to be civilized all the time.

Jean Kerr

#6. You watch some teams these days and you wonder if they just met on the playground and decided to choose up sides.

Dennis Rodman

#7. The inclination to aggression constitutes the greatest impediment to civilization.

Sigmund Freud

#8. In pure architecture the smallest detail should have a meaning or serve a purpose.

Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin

#9. The way to God is not vertically up. Never down. It is horizontal. Love lights up much of the path.

Priyavrat Thareja

#10. I believe it is essential for our planetary future to develop tools that can change the consciousness which has created the crisis that we are in.

Stanislav Grof

#11. What distinguishes the artist from the dilettante? Only the pain the artist feels. The dilettante looks only for pleasure in art.

Odilon Redon