#cathedral

The old cathedrals are good, but the great blue dome that hangs over everything is better. ↗

— Thomas Carlyle

#blue #cathedrals #dome #everything #good

The argument from design is hopelessly flawed. Building cathedrals from the top down would provide much better evidence. ↗

— Bauvard

#cathedrals #funny #god #humor #design

Every sport needs its temple, its cathedral. ↗

— Thomas Friedman

#every #needs #temple

A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral. ↗

— Antoine de Saint-Exupery

#bearing #cathedral #ceases #contemplates #him

We say nothing essential about the cathedral when we speak of its stones. We say nothing essential about Man when we seek to define him by the qualities of men. ↗

— Antoine de Saint-Exupery

#cathedral #define #essential #him #man

Regard it as just as desirable to build a chicken house as to build a cathedral. ↗

— Frank Lloyd Wright

#build #cathedral #chicken #desirable #house

It seemed she was in a cathedral—if, that is, the earth itself were to dream a cathedral into being over thousands of years of water weeping through stone. ↗

— Laini Taylor

#dreams

It was a secular cathedral, dedicated to the rites of travel. ↗

— Robert Hughes

#dedicated #rites #secular #travel

The Sabbath is a weekly cathedral raised up in my dining room, in my family, in my heart. ↗

— Anita Diament

#cathedral #dining #dining room #family #heart

Inside a religious body you get sects and hierarchies, inside an information network you get bazaars and cathedrals, it is the same, call them what you like. They survive by pointing the finger of blame at each other. ↗

— Mary Douglas

#body #call #cathedrals #each #finger