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 ― 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.” 
 

 

 

Daily Quote – Shakespeare

"Nor I, nor any man that but man is,
With nothing shall be pleased till he be eased
With being nothing."

Shakespeare: Richard II, act V, scene 5

 

Daily Quote – Hermann Hesse

"The world is not imperfect or slowly evolving along a path to perfection. No, it is perfect at every moment, every sin already carries grace in it."

 

Daily Quote – Epictetus

"In order to please others, we loose our hold on our life's purpose."

 

Daily Quote – Keynes

When Ludwig Wittgenstein returned to Cambridge University in 1929 John Maynard Keynes declared, "Well, God has arrived. I met him on the 5:15 train".