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His Quotes by Arthur Erickson
- The tourist transports his own values and demands to his destinations and implants them like an infectious disease, decimating whatever values existed before.
- The artist likes to seem totally responsible for his work. Often he begins to explain it, to make it appear as if it were a…
- Today's developer is a poor substitute for the committed entrepreneur of the last century for whom the work of architecture represented a chance to celebrate…
- What is the thread of western civilization that distinguished its course in history? It has to do with the preoccupation of western man with his…
More His Quotes
- Man cannot be free if he does not know that he is subject to necessity, because his freedom is always won in… — Hannah Arendt
- At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst. — Aristotle
- A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler… — Aristotle
- Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes… — Aristotle
- A real man loves his wife, and places his family as the most important thing in life. Nothing has brought me more… — Frank Abagnale
- Resolve to be thyself: and know that he who finds himself, loses his misery. — Matthew Arnold
- I myself spent nine years in an insane asylum and I never had the obsession of suicide, but I know that each… — Antonin Artaud
- I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self. — Aristotle