Daily Quote – Ferdinand Mount

“History to the defeated doesn’t even say “alas,” it just cuts them dead.” ~ Ferdinand Mount

 

Daily Quote – Shigeru Ban

“Architects mostly work for privileged people, people who have money and power, Power and money are invisible, so people hire us to visualize their power and money by making monumental architecture. I love to make monuments, too, but I thought perhaps we can use our experience and knowledge more for the general public, even for those who have lost their houses in natural disasters.”

 

Daily Quote ― Francesco Petrarca

“Rarely do great beauty and great virtue dwell together.”

 

Daily Quote – J.R.R. Tolkien

“I am in fact a hobbit in all but size. I like gardens, trees, and unmechanized farmlands. I smoke a pipe, like good, plain food, detest French cooking … I am fond of mushrooms, have a very simple sense of humor … go to bed late and get up late (when possible). I do not travel much.”

 

Daily Quote – Marcel Duchamp

“I have forced myself to contradict myself in order to avoid conforming to my own taste.”

 

Daily Quote ― A.C. Grayling

“Middle age has been defined as what happens when a person’s broad mind and narrow waist change places.”

 

Daily Quote ― Michael Oakeshott

“To be conservative, then, is to prefer the familiar to the unknown, to prefer the tried to the untried, fact to mystery, the actual to the possible, the limited to the unbounded, the near to the distant, the sufficient to the superabundant, the convenient to the perfect, present laughter to utopian bliss.”

 

Daily Quote ― Pier Paolo Pasolini

“If you know that I am an unbeliever, then you know me better than I do myself. I may be an unbeliever, but I am an unbeliever who has a nostalgia for a belief.”

 

Daily Quote – Astra Taylor

“We are at risk of starving in the midst of plenty, free culture, like cheap food, incurs hidden costs.”

 

Daily Quote – Pierre Simon De Laplace

 

“What we know is not much. What we don't know is enormous.”