Cities Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

For the span of my memory, this has been a city of opposing wills.

— Mari Evans

“A city is not adorned by external things, but by the virtue of those who dwell in it.”

— Epictetus

“I shall introduce this city and its occupants as a series of objects whose relationship cannot be told with any certainty. Though violence may…

— Jesse Ball

The property which every man has in his own labour, as it is the original foundation of all other property, so it is the…

— Adam Smith

The city is a cultural invention enforcing on the citizen knowledge of his own nature. And this we do not like. That we are…

— Robert Ardrey

The City that God is building for you and me, not even death can pass its gates! God's City of Tomorrow, His garden of…

— David Berg

“Only the modern city,” Hegel dares write, “offers the mind a field in which it can become aware of itself.” We are thus living…

— Albert Camus

“There is an endless chain of cities, a circle without beginning or end, over which there breaks unrelentingly a shifting wave of laws. There…

— Michal Ajvaz

“The city of God is filled with glorious things.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

If the will did not exist, neither would there be that centre of the world, which we call the I.

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

“At first cautiously, later indifferently, at last desperately, I wandered up the stairs and along the pavement of the inextricable palace. (Afterwards I learned…

— Jorge Luis Borges

“It's the place built out of Man's ceaseless failure to overcome himself. Out of Man's endless war against himself we build our successes as…

— Nelson Algren