Architecture Quote by Laurens van der Post Download Open image ““Modern man has lost the sense of wonder about the unknown and he treats it as an enemy.”” — Laurens van der Post ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.6 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Architecture Art Enemy Laurens-van-der-post Mapmaking Mapping Mind-map Mind-mapping Mindset Modern man Native american Patterns Renewal Sense of wonder Shape Tribal Unknown Village Wonder
“Man is everywhere dangerously unaware of himself. We really know nothing about the nature of man, and unless we hurry to get to know… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“This is the Modern Man. The man who seeks himself without ever seeking, because he does not want to find; The man who does… — Cristiane Serruya Copy Share Image
“He had the feeling that humanity was running in place. So many centuries and they had not learned anything new.” — Oliver Pötzsch Copy Share Image
“We always seek to find the enemy when in reality, the enemy is really us".” — Abdulazeez Henry Musa Copy Share Image
“I am afraid I am not quite so much the man of the world as might be good for me in some points. My… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“You cannot be afraid of the unknown. In every moment and with every step you take, the unknown becomes the known.” — Dragos Bratasanu, Ph.D Copy Share Image
“That fighting of a battle without belief is, I think, the sorriest task which ever falls to the lot of any man.” — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
“A man is what a man is; he recognises his deficiencies and tries to conquer them or plans around them.” — James Edwin Gunn Copy Share Image
“Is there a spot on earth where such a man is unknown, an ominous survival testifying to the eternal fitness of lies and impudence?” — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
“The modern man thinks that everything ought to be done for the sake of something else, and never for its own sake.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Modern man became psychological because he became isolated from protective collective ideologies. He had to justify himself from within himself.” — Ernest Becker Copy Share Image
There is a way in which the collective knowledge of mankind expresses itself, for the finite individual, through mere daily living . . .… — Laurens van der Post Copy Share Image
Man is never alone. Acknowledged or unacknowledged, that which dreams through him is always there to support him from within. — Laurens van der Post Copy Share Image
You cannot take the life of your times further than you have taken yourself. — Laurens van der Post Copy Share Image
Of all man's inborn dispositions there is none more heroic than the love in him. Everything else accepts defeat and dies, but love will… — Laurens van der Post Copy Share Image
Human beings are perhaps never more frightening than when they are convinced beyond doubt that they are right. — Laurens van der Post Copy Share Image
The age of leaders has come and gone. You must be your own leader now. You must contain the spirit of our time in… — Laurens van der Post Copy Share Image
I suspect it was...the old story of the implacable necessity of a man having honour within his own natural spirit. A man cannot live and temper his mettle without such honour. There is deep in him a sense of the heroic quest; and our modern way of life, with its emphasis on security, its distrust of the unknown and its… — Laurens van der Post Copy Share
In a profound sense every man has two halves to his being; he is not one person so much as two persons trying to… — Laurens van der Post Copy Share Image
Life is its own journey, presupposes its own change and movement, and one tries to arrest them at one's eternal peril. — Laurens van der Post Copy Share Image
The educating of the parents is really the education of the child children tend to live what is unlived in the parents, so it… — Laurens van der Post Copy Share Image
“We may not be able to stop and undo the hard old wrongs of the great world outside, but through you and me no… — Laurens van der Post Copy Share Image
The bones of my architecture are very much related to the structure, to the physical fact of how a building can stand up; it's… — Santiago Calatrava Copy Share Image
A man walks down the street. It's a street in a strange world. Maybe it's the third world. Maybe it's his first time around. He doesn't speak the language. He holds no currency. He is a foreign man. He is surrounded by the sound, sound of cattle in the marketplace, scatterlings and orphanages. He looks around, around he sees angels… — Paul Simon Copy Share
The Parthenon is really only a farmyard over which someone put a roof; colonades and sculptures were added because there were people in Athens… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
Society understands the architecture of academia and knows there are relevant qualifications in different fields, and the media accepts the idea of specialisations and… — Jay Griffiths Copy Share Image
I just think structure can make a book feel so much bigger. It's the architecture. You could use flimsy materials if you wanted to,… — Jami Attenberg Copy Share Image
When I am asked what I believe in, I say that I believe in architecture. Architecture is the mother of the arts. I like… — Richard Meier Copy Share Image
Some architects have a preconceived notion of what a building should be — Curtis W. Fentress Copy Share Image
The essential functions of the mind consist in understanding and in inventing, in other words, in building up structures by structuring reality. — Jean Piaget Copy Share Image
London, from the architecture to the culture to the fashion to the accents, feels like it's a special place. — G-Eazy Copy Share Image
A wiki works best where you're trying to answer a question that you can't easily pose, where there's not a natural structure that's known… — Ward Cunningham Copy Share Image
Architecture is not a profession for the faint-hearted, the weak-willed, or the short-lived. — Martin Filler Copy Share Image
As a result of reading science fiction when I was eight, I grew up with an interest in music, architecture, city planning, transportation, politics,… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image