Community Quote by Sven Birkerts

Our real journey in life is interior.

— Thomas Merton

I have come to the conviction that once one embarks on a concept for a building, this concept has to be exaggerated and overstated…

— Eero Saarinen

“We force ourselves to step outside our inner chamber of habitual thoughts and connect to the world, to other people, to reality.”

— Robert Greene

“The idea that we are buffeted by our environment, faith in artificial human edifices or indeed, the people around us, is a self-imposed and…

— Rob Parnell

“It is one of the unexpected disasters of the modern age that our new unparalleled access to information has come at the price of…

— Alain de Botton

I had a book of essays out in 1997 in which I talked about the increasing virtuality of our lives. I've always been afraid…

— Steven Heighton

“Perhaps every society is a utopia when you fail to peel up all the layers and look at what's underneath”

— Kameron Hurley

“It is all possessions, possessions, bullying you and turning you into a generalisation. You must leave your surroundings sketchy, unfinished, so that you are…

— D.H. Lawrence

The major impediment to experiencing the sacred depths of ordinary moments is the speed and distraction of contemporary life that moves to the imperatives…

— Sam Keen

The Here-and-Now demands attention, is more present to us. We dismiss the inner world of our ideas as less important, although most of our…

— Alan Moore

“It was civilization itself which inflicted this wound upon modern man. Once the increase of empirical knowledge, and more exact modes of thought, made…

— Friedrich von Schiller

“Each of us is trapped in a place, a time and a circumstance and our attempt to use our mind to transcend those boundaries…

— Daniel Gilbert