"The problem of the tall office building is……" — Louis Sullivan
"The problem of the tall office building is one of the most stupendous, one of the most magnificent opportunities that the Lord of Nature in His beneficence has ever offered to the proud spirit of man."
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Louis Sullivan
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24 Quotes by Louis Sullivan
Louis Sullivan has 24 quotes on this site.
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Form ever follows function.
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Form follows function.
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It cannot for a moment be doubted that an art work to be alive, to awaken us to its life,…
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National Health Insurance means combining the efficiency of the Postal Service with the compassion of the I.R.S. ... and the…
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But the building's identity resided in the ornament.
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It was the spirit animating the mass and flowing from it, and it expressed the individuality of the building.
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An architect, to be a true exponent of his time, must possess first, last and always the sympathy, the intuition…
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How strange it seems that education, in practice, so often means suppression: that instead of leading the mind outward to…
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What are books but folly, and what is an education but an arrant hypocrisy, and what is art but a…
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The architect who combines in his being the powers of vision, of imagination, of intellect, of sympathy with human need…
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Our architecture reflects truly as a mirror.
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Happiness and depression cannot blossom on the same vine. Some people affirm their woes and beg for sympathy. Others, unfortunately,…
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More Beneficence Quotes
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Private beneficence is totally inadequate to deal with the vast numbers of the city's disinherited.
— Jane Addams
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One act of beneficence, one act of real usefulness, is worth all the abstract sentiment in the world.
— Ann Radcliffe
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Every account of a higher power that I've seen described, of all religions that I've seen, include many statements with…
— Neil deGrasse Tyson
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The Angels are the dispensers and administrators of the Divine beneficence toward us. They regard our safety, undertake our defense,…
— John Calvin
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But I own that I cannot see as plainly as others do, and I should wish to do, evidence of…
— Charles Darwin
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Beneficence is a duty. He who frequently practices it, and sees his benevolent intentions realized, at length comes really to…
— Immanuel Kant
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To act and act wisely when the time for action comes, to wait and wait patiently when it is time…
— H. P. Blavatsky
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The obligations of law and equity reach only to mankind; but kindness and beneficence should be extended to the creatures…
— Plutarch
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The indescribable innocence of and beneficence of Nature,-of sun and wind and rain, of summer and winter,-such health, such cheer,…
— Henry David Thoreau
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When I consider the multitude of associated forces which are diffused through nature - when I think of that calm…
— Michael Faraday
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Simplicity is a pleasant thing in children, or at any age, but it is not necessarily admirable, nor is affectation…
— Charles Horton Cooley
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I trust, and I recognize the beneficence of the power which we all worship as supreme- Order, Fate, the Great…
— Helen Keller
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