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You use a glass mirror to see your face; you use works of art to see your soul.


George Bernard Shaw


#face #glass #mirror #see #soul

We need a home in the psychological sense as much as we need one in the physical: to compensate for a vulnerability. We need a refuge to shore up our states of mind, because so much of the world is opposed to our allegiances. We need our rooms to align us to desirable versions of ourselves and to keep alive the important, evanescent sides of us.


Alain de Botton


#houses #identity #architecture

I've always walked and climbed; spent a lot of time in the arctic and places.


Robin Day


#arctic #climbed #i #lot #places

At times it seems as if arranging to have no commitment of any kind to anyone would be a special freedom. But in fact the whole idea works in reverse. The most deadly commitment of all is to be committed only to one's self. Some come to realize this after they are in the nursing home.


John D. MacDonald


#freedom

I believe in freedom of speech, but I believe we should also have the right to comment on freedom of speech.


Stockwell Day


#also #believe #comment #freedom of speech #i

Canada is founded upon principles that recognize the supremacy of God and the rule of law.


Stockwell Day


#founded #god #law #principles #recognize

There are some parts of the world that, once visited, get into your heart and won't go. For me, India is such a place. When I first visited, I was stunned by the richness of the land, by its lush beauty and exotic architecture, by its ability to overload the senses with the pure, concentrated intensity of its colors, smells, tastes, and sounds. It was as if all my life I had been seeing the world in black and white and, when brought face-to-face with India, experienced everything re-rendered in brilliant technicolor.


Keith Bellows


#heart #india #architecture

There is at the back of every artist’s mind something like a pattern and a type of architecture. The original quality in any man of imagination is imagery. It is a thing like the landscape of his dreams; the sort of world he would like to make or in which he would like to wander, the strange flora and fauna, his own secret planet, the sort of thing he likes to think about. This general atmosphere, and pattern or a structure of growth, governs all his creations, however varied.


G.K. Chesterton


#creativity #architecture

If it happens that the human race doesn't make it, then the fact that we were here once will not be altered, that once upon a time we peopled this astonishing blue planet, and wondered intelligently at everything about it and the other things who lived here with us on it, and that we celebrated the beauty of it in music and art, architecture, literature, and dance, and that there were times when we approached something godlike in our abilities and aspirations. We emerged out of depthless mystery, and back into mystery we returned,and in the end the mystery is all there is.


James Howard Kunstler


#history #spirituality #architecture

On the whole human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time.


George Orwell


#human-nature #humour #philosophy #art






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