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> [“Those who think of their house as only a ‘machine to live in’ should judge their point of view by that Neolithic man, who also lived in a house, but a house that embodied a cosmology.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ananda-coomaraswamy/those-who-think-of-their-house-as-only-a-machine-to-live-in-should/)

[Ananda Coomaraswamy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ananda-coomaraswamy/)

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## More by Ananda Coomaraswamy

> [No creature can attain a higher grade of nature without ceasing to exist.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ananda-coomaraswamy/no-creature-can-attain-a-higher-grade-of-nature-without-ceasing-to/)

[Ananda Coomaraswamy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ananda-coomaraswamy/)

> [All that is best for us comes of itself into our hands-but if we strive to overtake it, it perpetually eludes us.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ananda-coomaraswamy/all-that-is-best-for-us-comes-of-itself-into-our-hands-but-if-we/)

[Ananda Coomaraswamy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ananda-coomaraswamy/)

> [Becoming is not a contradiction of being but the epiphany of being.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ananda-coomaraswamy/becoming-is-not-a-contradiction-of-being-but-the-epiphany-of-being/)

[Ananda Coomaraswamy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ananda-coomaraswamy/)

> [Industry without art is brutality.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ananda-coomaraswamy/industry-without-art-is-brutality/)

[Ananda Coomaraswamy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ananda-coomaraswamy/)

> [It is only when the maker of things is a maker of things by vocation, and not merely holding down a job, that the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ananda-coomaraswamy/it-is-only-when-the-maker-of-things-is-a-maker-of-things-by-vocation/)

[Ananda Coomaraswamy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ananda-coomaraswamy/)

> [“There is then no sacred or profane, spiritual or sensual, but everything that lives is pure and void.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ananda-coomaraswamy/there-is-then-no-sacred-or-profane-spiritual-or-sensual-but/)

[Ananda Coomaraswamy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ananda-coomaraswamy/)

> [Beauty is the attractive power of perfection.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ananda-coomaraswamy/beauty-is-the-attractive-power-of-perfection/)

[Ananda Coomaraswamy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ananda-coomaraswamy/)

> [“Those who think of their house as only a ‘machine to live in’ should judge their point of view by that Neolithic man, who…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ananda-coomaraswamy/those-who-think-of-their-house-as-only-a-machine-to-live-in-should/)

[Ananda Coomaraswamy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ananda-coomaraswamy/)

> [Myth embodies the nearest approach to absolute truth that can be stated in words.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ananda-coomaraswamy/myth-embodies-the-nearest-approach-to-absolute-truth-that-can-be/)

[Ananda Coomaraswamy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ananda-coomaraswamy/)

> [From one point of view becoming is a humiliation, and from another a royal procession.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ananda-coomaraswamy/from-one-point-of-view-becoming-is-a-humiliation-and-from-another-a/)

[Ananda Coomaraswamy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ananda-coomaraswamy/)

> [Man's activity consists in either a making or doing. Both of these aspects of the active life depend for their correction upon the contemplative…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ananda-coomaraswamy/man-s-activity-consists-in-either-a-making-or-doing-both-of-these/)

[Ananda Coomaraswamy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ananda-coomaraswamy/)

> [The vocation, whether it be that of the farmer or the architect, is a function; the exercise of this function as regards the man…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ananda-coomaraswamy/the-vocation-whether-it-be-that-of-the-farmer-or-the-architect-is-a/)

[Ananda Coomaraswamy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ananda-coomaraswamy/)

> [The artist is not a special kind of man, but every man is a special kind of artist.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ananda-coomaraswamy/the-artist-is-not-a-special-kind-of-man-but-every-man-is-a-special/)

[Ananda Coomaraswamy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ananda-coomaraswamy/)

> [The most awkward means are adequate to the communication of authentic experience, and the finest words no compensation for lack of it. It is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ananda-coomaraswamy/the-most-awkward-means-are-adequate-to-the-communication-of-authentic/)

[Ananda Coomaraswamy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ananda-coomaraswamy/)

> [The man incapable of contemplation cannot be an artist, but only a skillful workman.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ananda-coomaraswamy/the-man-incapable-of-contemplation-cannot-be-an-artist-but-only-a/)

[Ananda Coomaraswamy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ananda-coomaraswamy/)

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