A modern building should derive its architectural significance solely from the vigour and consequence of its own organic proportions. It must be true to itself, logically transparent, and virginal of lies or trivialities.
If you want to be wrong then follow the masses.
People learn more on their own rather than being force fed.
The cure of many diseases remains unknown to the physicians of Hellos (Greece) because they do not study the whole person.
Whom do I call educated? First, those who manage well the circumstances they encounter day by day. Next, those who are decent and honorable in their intercourse with all men, bearing easily and good naturedly what is offensive in others and being as agreeable and reasonable to their associates as is humanly possible to be. . . those who hold their pleasures always under control and are not ultimately overcome by their misfortunes. . . those who are not spoiled by their successes, who do not desert their true selves but hold their ground steadfastly as wise and sober - minded men.
Improve yourself by other men's writings thus attaining effortlessly what they acquired through great difficulty.
The friend must be like money, that before you need it, the value is known.
The freer the soul, the more abstract painting becomes.
The only way of living in a free society is to feel that you have the right to say and do stuff.
We live in a world which respects power above all things. Power, intelligently directed, can lead to more freedom. Unwisely directed, it can be a dreadful, destructive force.
Love costs all we are and will ever be. Yet it is only love which sets us free. A Brave and Startling Truth.