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painters and sculptors affect our senses by creating changes in patterns, and in proportional relationships between shapes, through the manipulation of light and color, but only architects shape the space in which we live and through which
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“There is nothing worse than imagination without taste.”
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“Don't hope that events will turn out the way you want, welcome events in whichever way they happen: this is the path to peace.”
― Discourses and Selected Writings
― Discourses and Selected Writings
“The opinion of 10,000 people is of no value if none of them know anything about the subject.”
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“Meaningful silence is better than meaningless words.”
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“Men are born ignorant, not stupid; they are made stupid by education.”
― History of Western Philosophy
― History of Western Philosophy
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