#wi

If you asked somebody, 'what do you wish for in life?' they wouldn't say 'happiness.' I would have answered 'excitement, knowledge,' God knows - I mean, many, many different things, but certainly not 'happiness'. It seemed like a foreign concept to wish for something that specific and that singular. ↗

— Connie Nielsen

#asked #certainly #concept #different #different things

I conceived of an instrument that would create sound without using any mechanical energy, like the conductor of an orchestra. The orchestra plays mechanically, using mechanical energy; the conductor just moves his hands, and his movements have an effect on the music artistry. ↗

— Leon Theremin

#artistry #conceived #conductor #create #effect

Architecture will always express the technical and social progress of the country in which it is carried out. If we wish to give it the human content that it lacks, we must participate in the political struggle. ↗

— Oscar Niemeyer

#architecture #carried #content #country #express

It is impossible to suffer without making someone pay for it; every complaint already contains revenge. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#complaint #contains #every #impossible #making

It was the drawing that led me to architecture, the search for light and astonishing forms. ↗

— Oscar Niemeyer

#astonishing #drawing #forms #led #light

On the mountains of truth you can never climb in vain: either you will reach a point higher up today, or you will be training your powers so that you will be able to climb higher tomorrow. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#climb #either #higher #mountains #never

Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion? ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#appear #does #earth #inspired #perhaps

Nothing is beautiful, only man: on this piece of naivete rests all aesthetics, it is the first truth of aesthetics. Let us immediately add its second: nothing is ugly but degenerate man - the domain of aesthetic judgment is therewith defined. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#aesthetic #beautiful #defined #degenerate #domain

Whoever battles with monsters had better see that it does not turn him into a monster. And if you gaze long into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#back #battles #better #does #gaze

Glance into the world just as though time were gone: and everything crooked will become straight to you. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#crooked #everything #glance #gone #into