“I shall never rest until I know that all my ideas are derived not from hearsay or tradition but from my real living contact with the things themselves.”
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“Men, it is in vain that you seek within yourselves the cure for your miseries. All your intelligence can only bring you to realize that it is not within yourselves that you will find either truth or good.”
― Pensées
― Pensées
“I should not suffer so deeply from lack of communication or find such unique pleasure in authentic communication if I for myself, in absolute solitude, could be certain of the truth. But I am only in conjunction with the Other, alone I am nothing.”
― Way to Wisdom: An Introduction to Philosophy
― Way to Wisdom: An Introduction to Philosophy
“Beauty is due more to harmonious
relationships among the elements of
a composition than to the elements
themselves.”
― 101 Things I Learned in Architecture School
relationships among the elements of
a composition than to the elements
themselves.”
― 101 Things I Learned in Architecture School
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