Architecture Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson

18 Architecture quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Emerson’s eighteen passages weave architecture into his larger philosophy, suggesting that buildings can reflect the soul of a nation.

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Greek architecture is the flowering of geometry.

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“The frolic architecture of the snow.”

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The brevity of human life gives a melancholy to the profession of the architect.

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It is the last lesson of modern science, that the highest simplicity of structure is produced, not by few elements, but by…

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The Gothic cathedral is a blossoming in stone subdued by the insatiable demand of harmony in man.

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There is no architect Can build as the Muse can; She is skilful to select Materials for her plan.

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For it is not metres, but a metre-making argument that makes a poem, - a thought so passionate and alive that like…

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Talent finds its models, methods, and ends in society, exists for exhibition, and goes to the soul only for power to work.…

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The American who has been confined, in his own country, to the sight of buildings designed after foreign models, is surprised on…

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The hand that rounded Peter's dome, And groined the aisles of Christian Rome, Wrought in a sad sincerity; Himself from God he…

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In the morning a man walks with his whole body; in the evening, only with his legs. RALPH WALDO EMERSON, Journals and…

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If the king is in the palace, nobody looks at the walls. It is when he is gone, and the house is…

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The poet, the painter, the sculptor, the musican, the architect, seek each to concentrate this radiance of the world on one point,…

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Moller, in his Essay on Architecture, taught that the building which was fitted accurately to answer its end would turn out to…

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There is in nature a parallel unity which corresponds to the unity in the mind and makes it available. This methodizing mind…

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“The first and last lesson of the useful arts is that Nature tyrannizes over our works. They must be conformed to her…

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I have heard that stiff people lose something of their awkwardness under high ceilings, and in spacious halls. I think, sculptureand painting…

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Art is a jealous mistress, and if a man has a genius for painting, poetry, music, architecture or philosophy, he makes a…

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Consideration is the soil in which wisdom may be expected to grow, and strength be given to every up-springing plant of duty.

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The order of things consents to virtue.

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Life only avails, not the having lived.

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A child reminds us that playtime is an essential part of our daily routine.

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No man can be criticised but by a greater than he. Do not, then, read the reviews.

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