#ck

Just as the performance of the vilest and most wicked deeds requires spirit and talent, so even the greatest demand a certain insensitivity which under other circumstances we would call stupidity. ↗

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

#certain #circumstances #deeds #demand #even

Larry wanted us to reposition the tower. We wouldn't, and won't. He's been holding back our fees. We want to get paid. And that's it. It'll get solved and we'll carry on with planning Ground Zero. ↗

— Daniel Libeskind

#been #carry #fees #get #ground

There are more people living in Lower Manhattan now than before the terrorist attacks. That's faith for you. There's such a strong spirit here. ↗

— Daniel Libeskind

#before #faith #here #living #lower

Nothing can contribute more to peace of soul than the lack of any opinion whatever. ↗

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

#contribute #lack #more #nothing #opinion

Winning a competition in architecture is a ticket to oblivion. It's just an idea. Ninety-nine per cent never get built. ↗

— Daniel Libeskind

#built #cent #competition #get #idea

Sickness is mankind's greatest defect. ↗

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

#greatest #mankind #sickness

What is called an acute knowledge of human nature is mostly nothing but the observer's own weaknesses reflected back from others. ↗

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

#back #called #human #human nature #knowledge

Every man has his moral backside which he refrains from showing unless he has to and keeps covered as long as possible with the trousers of decorum. ↗

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

#covered #decorum #every #every man #his

Here take back the stuff that I am, nature, knead it back into the dough of being, make of me a bush, a cloud, whatever you will, even a man, only no longer make me me. ↗

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

#back #being #bush #cloud #dough

Nothing makes one old so quickly as the ever-present thought that one is growing older. ↗

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

#makes #nothing #old #older #quickly