Common Quote by Philip Johnson

“From the very fact the universe is on the whole orderly, in a manner comprehensible to our intellect, is evidence that we and it were fashioned by a common intelligence.” quote by Philip Johnson — Download Open image

“From the very fact the universe is on the whole orderly, in a manner comprehensible to our intellect, is evidence that we and it were fashioned by a common intelligence.”

Philip Johnson

★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.5 out of 5 (9 ratings)

Common Evidence Facts Intellect Intelligence Orderly Scary Universe Whole

More by Philip Johnson

Architecture is the art of how to waste space.

Philip Johnson

Image

I'm a chameleon, so changeable. I see myself as a gadfly and a questioner.

Philip Johnson

Image

Scientific naturalism is a story that reduces reality to physical particles and impersonal laws, [and] portrays life as a meaningless competition among organisms that…

Philip Johnson

Image

I hate vacations. If you can build buildings, why sit on the beach?

Philip Johnson

Image

I like to be buttoned onto tradition. The thing is to improve it, twist it and mold it; to make something new of it;…

Philip Johnson

Image

So now the floodgates are open to the delight of pure form, whatever its origin. Anything goes.

Philip Johnson

Image

You cannot not know history.

Philip Johnson

Image

Purpose is not necessary to make a building beautiful.

Philip Johnson

Image

I haven't any wisdom - just a child like everybody else. I'm not as great as Frank Lloyd Wright.

Philip Johnson

Image

Don't build a glass house if you're worried about saving money on heating.

Philip Johnson

Image

In our greatest universities, naturalism - the doctrine that nature is all there is - is the virtually unquestioned assumption that underlies not only…

Philip Johnson

Image

The automobile is the greatest catastrophe in the entire history of City architecture.

Philip Johnson

Image

Explore all 66 Philip Johnson quotes

More Common quotes

A flourishing, morally credible media is a vital component in the maintenance of genuinely public talk, argument about common good.

Rowan Williams

Image

We find few historians who have been diligent enough in their search for truth; it is their common method to take on trust what…

John Dryden

Image

The ability of the gospel to unite us on common strengths and common truths is one of the great miracles . . . of the gospel.

Jeffrey R. Holland

Image

Our times demand the declaration of the world's resources as the common heritage of all people.

Jacque Fresco

Image

Neither Italian fascism nor German national "socialism" have anything in common with such a [Soviet socialistic] society, primarily because private ownership of factories, plants,…

Joseph Stalin

Image

When you have a cavity in your tooth and you let it get worse, eventually you have to get a root canal. If you…

Olivia Newton-John

Image

There is nothing that we can properly call our own but our time, and yet everybody fools us out of it who has a…

Seneca the Younger

Image

Common sense is nothing more than a deposit of prejudices laid down in the mind before you reach eighteen.

Albert Einstein

Image

A common fallacy in much of the adverse criticism to which science is subjected today is that it claims certainty, infallibility and complete emotional…

Cyril Norman Hinshelwood