Intellectuals are cynical and cynics have never built a cathedral. — Henry A. Kissinger Copy Share Image
The Gothic cathedral is a blossoming in stone subdued by the insatiable demand of harmony in man. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Art is, nowadays, our new religion and museums are our cathedrals. — Theodore Zeldin Copy Share Image
Of all man's works of art, a cathedral is greatest. A vast and majestic tree is greater than that. — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
Big machines are the awe-inspiring cathedrals of the 20th century. — Daniel Kleppner Copy Share Image
To me, nature is sacred; trees are my temples and forests are my cathedrals. — Mikhail Gorbachev Copy Share Image
There is a reason we used to build Cathedrals that drew the eye upwards. — Michael Gungor Copy Share Image
“I would not like to live in a world without cathedrals. I need their beauty and grandeur. I need them against the… — Pascal Mercier Copy Share Image
All through history, a nation or a civilization's enduring glory is articulated by its mega constructions - the pyramids, the lofty cathedrals… — F. Sionil Jose Copy Share Image
I have a feeling of reverence about my father being in his 80s - a feeling that I want to whisper, take… — Patti Davis Copy Share Image
In my mind I am eloquent; I can climb intricate scaffolds of words to reach the highest cathedral ceilings and paint my… — Isaac Marion Copy Share Image
My icons do not raise up the blessed savior in elaborate cathedrals. They are constructed concentrations celebrating barren rooms. They bring a… — Dan Flavin Copy Share Image
It seemed she was in a cathedral—if, that is, the earth itself were to dream a cathedral into being over thousands of… — Laini Taylor Copy Share Image
Mountains are not stadiums where I satisfy my ambition to achieve, they are the cathedrals where I practice my religion. — Anatoli Boukreev Copy Share Image
I walk without flinching through the burning cathedral of the summer. My bank of wild grass is majestic and full of music.… — Violette Leduc Copy Share Image
The arts speak across epochs. If you think that people started to build a cathedral in 1315 and the people worked on… — Wynton Marsalis Copy Share Image
Let the people walk. Or ride horses, bicycles, mules, wild pigs-anything-but keep the automobiles and the motorcycles and all their motorized relatives… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
All night I streched my arms across him, rivers of blood, the dark woods, singing with all my skin and bone ''Please… — Richard Siken Copy Share Image
When you start, the world of publishing seems like a great cathedral citadel of talent, resisting attempts to let you inside. It… — Alan Garner Copy Share Image
Back in the 1500s, the culture that we had built in the West embraced multigenerational projects quite easily. Notre Dame. Massive cathedrals… — Jamais Cascio Copy Share Image
Mass production is nothing new. Weren't cathedrals built through mass production? The pyramids?... Paintings can be painted with the left hand, the… — Ai Weiwei Copy Share Image
Not only is the day waning, but the year. The low sun is fiery and yet cold behind the monastery ruin, and… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
The Hindu religion appears ... as a cathedral temple, half in ruins, noble in the mass, often fantastic in detail but always… — Sri Aurobindo Copy Share Image
If you have a faith, it is statistically overwhelmingly likely that it is the same faith as your parents and grandparents had.… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“Jocelyn, as the bus rolled along, looked across a space of green grass, elm-bordered, to the grey mass of the Cathedral. Its… — Elizabeth Goudge Copy Share Image
Armstrong, sitting in the commander's seat, spacesuit on, helmet on, plugged into electrical and environmental umbilical's, is a man who is not… — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
9/11 was a signal that we were living in a new world - a world of interdependence, a world in which people… — Benjamin Barber Copy Share Image
It will seem as if you were making the visions banal — but then you need to do that — then you… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
Perhaps I shall not write my account of the Paleolithic at all, but make a film of it. A silent film at… — Penelope Lively Copy Share Image
Religion shows a pattern of heredity which I think is similar to genetic heredity. ... There are hundreds of different religious sects,… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
I come from a tradition of Western culture, in which the ideal (my ideal) was the complex, dense, and 'cathedral-like' structure of… — Richard Foreman Copy Share Image
The raising of a child is the building of a cathedral. You can't cut corners. — Dave Eggers Copy Share Image
A grove of giant redwood or sequoias should be kept just as we keep a great and beautiful cathedral. — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Most buildings, whether they're Gothic cathedrals or Romanesque ones, were high tech for their time. — Richard Rogers Copy Share Image
He who has seen one cathedral ten times has seen something; he who has seen ten cathedrals once has seen but little;… — Sinclair Lewis Copy Share Image
Our horizon is the creation of a noble society to which, like the medieval builder of those glorious cathedrals, you will have… — Adrienne Clarkson Copy Share Image
In cathedral or cottage, the art of worship is an inner adventure; it is the personal practice of the presence of God. — Wilferd Peterson Copy Share Image
The public library building, in my view, is just a little lower than the church, the cathedral, the temple, the synagogue and… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
