"The brevity of human life gives a melancholy……" — Ralph Waldo Emerson
"The brevity of human life gives a melancholy to the profession of the architect."
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2,824 Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Strong men greet war, tempest, hard times. They wish, as Pindar said, to tread the floors of hell, with necessities…
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If I should go out of church whenever I hear a false sentiment, I could never stay there five minutes.
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To different minds, the same world is a hell, and a heaven.
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To this military attitude of the soul we give the name of Heroism... It is a self-trust which slights the…
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There is one topic peremptorily forbidden to all well-bred, to all rational mortals, namely, their distempers. If you have not…
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Extremes meet, and there is no better example than the naughtiness of humility.
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Science is nothing but the finding of analogy, identity, in the most remote parts.
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The possibility of interpretation lies in the identity of the observer with the observed. Each material thing has its celestial…
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One of the most wonderful things in nature is a glance of the eye; it transcends speech; it is the…
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Every promise of the soul has innumerable fulfillments; each of its joys ripens into a new want.
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The foolish man wonders at the unusual, but the wise man at the usual.
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A little praise goes a great ways.
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My dad was an architect, and he wasn't a rich guy, but in our little world in Philadelphia, he was…
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I don't divide architecture, landscape and gardening; to me they are one.
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Architect. One who drafts a plan of your house, and plans a draft of your money.
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I'm strong-willed. Architects are strong-willed. You get the best results with a strong client and a strong architect working together.
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The ultimate goal of the architect...is to create a paradise. Every house, every product of architecture... should be a fruit…
— Alvar Aalto
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I have an expensive hobby: buying homes, redoing them, tearing them down and building them up the way they want…
— Sandra Bullock
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Here in Barcelona, it's the architects who built the buildings that made the city iconic who are the objects of…
— Julie Burchill
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Artists to my mind are the real architects of change, and not the political legislators who implement change after the…
— William S. Burroughs
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Many of the architects of the Vietnam War became near pariahs as they spent the remainder of their lives in…
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We shape our buildings; thereafter they shape us.
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That is the way a great master carpenter feels, or an architect or composer or anyone who creates anything -…
— David Amram
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All those involved in the construction of an architectural design, from the architect to the builder, have an attachment to…
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