Being joyful isn't what makes you grateful. Being grateful is what makes you joyful.
nothing suffers annihilation, but at dissolution there is a change, and things fall back to the essential element in which they were before.
Architects should be educated, skillful with the pencil, instructed in geometry, know much history, have followed the philosophers with attention, understand music, have some knowledge of medicine, know the opinions of the jurists, and be acquainted with astronomy and the theory of the heavens
Architecture depends on Order, Arrangement, Eurythmy, Symmetry , Propriety , and Economy.
Architect's designs must refer to the unquestionable perfection of the body's symmetry and proportions. If a building is to create a sense of eurythmia, it is essential that it mirrors these natural laws of harmony and beauty
In accordance with the foregoing investigations on mathematical principles, let bronze vessels be made, proportionate to the size of the theatre, and let them be so fashioned that, when touched, they may produce with one another the notes of the fourth, the fifth, and so on up the double octave.
The architect must not only understand drawing, but music.
People do not like to think. If one thinks, one must reach conclusions. Conclusions are not always pleasant.
The savages are upon me and I feel my flesh burn beneath the teeth of their indifference.
I'm afraid of elevators, because they are an enclosed space, but I get in.
Each temptation leaves us better or worse; neutrality is impossible.