Architecture Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

In the morning a man walks with his whole body; in the evening, only with his legs.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Greek architecture is the flowering of geometry.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Geometry is one and eternal shining in the mind of God. That share in it accorded to men is one of the reasons that…

— Johannes Kepler

Geometry is one and eternal shining in the mind of God

— Johannes Kepler

Every writer must reconcile, as best he may, the conflicting claims of consistency and variety, of rigour in detail and elegance in the whole.…

— Julian Coolidge

“There is no geometry here; or rather there is a secret, infinitely non-Eucledian and subtle geometry, a secret harmony that the mind seizes before…

— Alan Macfarlane

Geometry is the archetype of the beauty of the world.

— Johannes Kepler

“This, dear Phaedrus, is the most important point: no geometry without the word. Without it, figures are accidents, and neither make manifest nor serve…

— Paul Valéry

“Straight lines evidently belonged only to geometry, not to nature and life.”

— Hermann Hesse

“Often he rose early in the morning, before anyone else, and poured himself liquid through the sunrise streets, and everything seemed beautiful, everything in…

— Robert Cormier

“At certain epochs, man has felt conscious of something about himself - body and spirit - which was outside the day-to-day struggle for existence…

— Kenneth Clark

“Walking is the only form of transportation in which a man proceeds erect - like a man - on his own legs, under his…

— Edward Abbey