Age Quote by Jonathan Swift

Architects believe that not only do they sit at the right hand of God, but that if God ever gets up, they take the…

— Karen Moyer

But amid much elegance and precision, the details of life and the Universe also exhibit haphazard, jury-rigged arrangements and much poor planning. What shall…

— Carl Sagan

The philosophers must station themselves in the middle.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“That any civilized human being in this nineteenth century should not be aware that the earth traveled round the sun appeared to me to…

— Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Thoroughly to unfold the labyrinths of the human mind is an arduous task.... In order to dive into those recesses and lay them open…

— Sarah Fielding

Man must be arched and buttressed from within, else the temple wavers to the dust.

— Marcus Aurelius

“What of Thought? The Crew had developed a kind of shorthand whereby they could set forth any visions that might come their way. Conversations…

— Thomas Pynchon

A true philosopher is like an elephant; he never puts the second foot down until the first one is solidly in place.

— Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle

“The trouble is all in the knob at the top of our bodies. I’m not against the body or the head either: only the…

— Margaret Atwood

“Visitors say, 'Real shrunken heads! Wow! How were they made? By slitting the skin, taking out the skull and brains and steaming them with…

— Frances Larson

In order to design buildings with a sensuous connection to life, one must think in a way that goes far beyond form and construction.

— Peter Zumthor

He who has not first laid his foundations may be able with great ability to lay them afterwards, but they will be laid with…

— Niccolo Machiavelli