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Christopher Alexander has 33 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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Nowadays, the process of growth and development almost never seems to manage to create this subtle balance between the importance of the…
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Drawings help people to work out intricate relationships between parts.
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It is not possible to make great buildings, or great towns, beautiful places, places where you feel yourself, places where you feel…
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We are searching for some kind of harmony between two intangibles: a form which we have not yet designed and a context…
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To work our way towards a shared language once again, we must first learn how to discover patterns which are deep, and…
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To seek the timeless way we must first know the quality without a name. There is a central quality which is the…
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When you make something, cleaning it out of structural debris is one of the most vital things you do.
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The more living patterns there are in a place - a room, a building, or a town - the more it comes…
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There is one timeless way of building. It is a thousand years old, and the same today as it has ever been.…
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From a sequence of these individual patterns, whole buildings with the character of nature will form themselves within your thoughts, as easily…
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In an organic environment, every place is unique, and the different places also cooperate, with no parts left over, to create a…
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In short, no pattern is an isolated entity. Each pattern can exist in the world only to the extent that is supported…
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Man wants to live, but it is useless to hope that this desire will dictate all his actions.
— Albert Camus
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Man is free; yet we must not suppose that he is at liberty to do everything he pleases, for he becomes a…
— Giacomo Casanova
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Whenever a warrior decides to do something, he must go all the way, but he must take responsibility for what he does.…
— Carlos Castaneda
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It makes him contemptible to be considered fickle, frivolous, effeminate, mean-spirited, irresolute, from all of which a prince should guard himself as…
— Niccolo Machiavelli
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We know what a person thinks not when he tells us what he thinks, but by his actions.
— Isaac Bashevis Singer
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Too often, charity is extended to another when his actions or conduct are acceptable to us. The exhibition of charity to another…
— H. Burke Peterson
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A man's intentions should be allowed in some respects to plead for his actions.
— George Washington
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When a man has fulfilled all four of these requisites-to be wide awake, to have fear, respect, and absolute assurance-there are no…
— Carlos Castaneda
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The only guide to a man's conscience, the only shield to his memory is the rectitude and sincerity of his actions.
— Winston Churchill
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The wisest man is he who can account for his actions.
— Umar
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If each of us were to confess his most secret desire, the one that inspires all his plans, all his actions, he…
— Emile M. Cioran
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Only by being permitted to experience the consequences of his actions will the child acquire a sense of responsibility; and within the…
— Robert M. Lindner
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