#thin

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

Life it is not just a series of calculations and a sum total of statistics, it's about experience, it's about participation, it is something more complex and more interesting than what is obvious. ↗

— Daniel Libeskind

#calculations #complex #experience #interesting #just

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

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

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

#contribute #lack #more #nothing #opinion

I cannot say whether things will get better if we change; what I can say is they must change if they are to get better. ↗

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

#better #cannot #get #i #i can

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

Nothing is more conducive to peace of mind than not having any opinion at all. ↗

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

#conducive #having #mind #more #nothing

A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents. ↗

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

#clearly #his #joke #nothing #person

If all else fails, the character of a man can be recognized by nothing so surely as by a jest which he takes badly. ↗

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

#character #else #fails #jest #man

The pleasures of the imagination are as it were only drawings and models which are played with by poor people who cannot afford the real thing. ↗

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

#cannot #drawings #imagination #models #only