Philosophy Quote by Tom Wolfe

“Suddenly at the end of the great couloir my vision is sharpened by a pale disjunctive shudder as a bar of buttercup-yellow thickening gradually…

— Lawrence Durrell

“The Swiss-born architect known as Le Corbusier retreated to his rooms in Paris and sipped cognac and smoked through the worst of the pandemic,…

— Laura Spinney

Forget [Le Corbusier ]. Forget Modernism. Forget yesterdays' tomorrow.

— James Howard Kunstler

“If only people realized Corbusier is pure nineteenth century, Manchester school utilitarian, and that's why they like him.”

— Evelyn Waugh

I became a fanatic of the architecture of Le Corbusier and I visited almost all his buildings and read all his books. Only later…

— Santiago Calatrava

“No one thing shows the greatness and power of the human intellect or the loftiness and nobility of man more than his ability to…

— Giacomo Leopardi

“There is little but the sublime to help us through the ordinary in life. Alain (Émile-Auguste Chartier)”

— Antoine Laurain

“For cleverness and wisdom are as different as are the circuitous passages of a labyrinth and the straight, upward flight of a bird.”

— Evangeline Walton

“The French have such an attractive civilization, dedicated to calm pleasures and general tolerance, and their taste in every domain is so sharp, so…

— Edmund White

“There is an admirable fact about the psychology of France: she knows no half measures, loathsome or sublime, she forges the thought and the…

— Josephin Peladan

“One that has well digested his knowledge both of books and men, has little enjoyment but in the company of a few select companions.…

— David Hume

“He thought the best thing he had gained in Paris was a complete liberty of spirit, and he felt himself at last absolutely free.…

— William Somerset Maugham