Farnsworth House Quotes

#1. When one looks at Nature through the glass walls of the Farnsworth House, it takes on a deeper significance than when one stands outside. More of Nature is thus expressed - it becomes part of a greater whole.

Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe

#2. You could never hide yourself in these places - in Mies's Farnsworth house, for example. That was a mistake of Modernism. People need places to hide from each other, too. You need everything.

Ben Van Berkel

#3. Never memorize something that you can look up.

Albert Einstein

#4. The powerful don't make revolutions

Marge Piercy

#5. What is national freedom if not a people's inner freedom to cultivate its abilities along the beaten path of its history?

Ahad Ha'am

#6. Even if you don't have time for a big workout, stretching in the morning and night really changes your body.

Erin Heatherton

#7. Many training programs and often schools focus on just a skill or a kind of work competency. That's only half the equation.

Gerald Chertavian

#8. Most people are only too delighted to wreck each other's heads. And for the tiny minority who do their pathetic best not to, this world is going to go right ahead and make sure they do it anyway.

Tana French

#9. For the activity of the mind is life

Aristotle.

#10. I've been around for so long, people have their perceptions of me: good, bad or indifferent.

Rob Lowe

#11. A wave of yet more tender joy escaped from his heart, and went coursing in warm flood along his arteries. Like the tender fires of stars moments of their life together, that no one knew of, or would ever know of, broke upon and illumined his memory..

James Joyce

#12. (The mind's) dynamics transcend the time and space of brain physiology.

Roger Wolcott Sperry

#13. All my life, I have never felt as happy on Earth as when I'm getting closer to the sky.

Erhard Loretan