#um

Only through acknowledgment of the erasure and void of Jewish life can the history of Berlin and Europe have a human future. ↗

— Daniel Libeskind

#berlin #europe #future #history #human

Cities are the greatest creations of humanity. ↗

— Daniel Libeskind

#cities #creations #greatest #humanity

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

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

We accumulate our opinions at an age when our understanding is at its weakest. ↗

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

#age #opinions #our #understanding #weakest

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

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

It is almost everywhere the case that soon after it is begotten the greater part of human wisdom is laid to rest in repositories. ↗

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

#almost #begotten #case #everywhere #greater