#ow

I think there is a new awareness in this 21st century that design is as important to where and how we live as it is for museums, concert halls and civic buildings. ↗

— Daniel Libeskind

#21st century #awareness #buildings #century #civic

I'm not Candide, nor Dr Pangloss, but we know that faith moves mountains. ↗

— Daniel Libeskind

#faith #i #know #mountains #moves

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

There will be a competition for the memorial. And then it can be developed with trees, with planting. It can become a very beautiful place protected from the streets, because it is below. And it can be something very moving and very private. ↗

— Daniel Libeskind

#beautiful place #because #become #below #competition

Well, I didn't want to have the reminder sort of in the sky, so that people would forever look at it. I wanted to have - really to create a city from the bottom up. From that foundation, which held, from the democratic power of what the site really is. ↗

— Daniel Libeskind

#city #create #democratic #forever #foundation

To be content with life or to live merrily, rather all that is required is that we bestow on all things only a fleeting, superficial glance; the more thoughtful we become the more earnest we grow. ↗

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

#become #bestow #content #earnest #fleeting

God created man in His own image, says the Bible; philosophers reverse the process: they create God in theirs. ↗

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

#create #created #god #his #image

Perhaps in time the so-called Dark Ages will be thought of as including our own. ↗

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

#ages #dark #dark ages #including #our

The Greeks possessed a knowledge of human nature we seem hardly able to attain to without passing through the strengthening hibernation of a new barbarism. ↗

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

#attain #barbarism #greeks #hardly #human