To teach virtue we must educate the emotions, and this means learning "what to feel" in the various circumstances that prompt them.

Art once made a cult of beauty. Now we have a cult of ugliness instead. This has made art into an elaborate joke, one which by now has ceased to be funny.

There is a deep human need for beauty and if you ignore that need in architecture your buildings will not last

Modernism in architecture went hand in hand with socialist and fascist projects to rid old Europe of its hierarchical past

A writer who says that there are no truths, or that all truth is ‘merely relative,’ is asking you not to believe him. So don’t.

Through the pursuit of beauty we shape the world as a home, and in doing so we both amplify our joys and find consolation for our sorrows.

The culture of a civilization is the art and literature through which it rises to consciousness of itself and defines its vision of the world.

Art and music shine a light of meaning on ordinary life, and through them we are able to confront the things that trouble us and to find consolation and peace in their presence.

It is not enough to be nice; you have to be good. We are attracted by nice people; but only on the assumption that their niceness is a sign of goodness.

In argument about moral problems, relativism is the first refuge of the scoundrel.

There are no chords in modernist architecture, only lines - lines that may come to an end, but that achieve no closure

Change is the process by which the future invades our lives.

Build something with enduring value.

Change has to come from outside our corrupt system.

You know, the whole philosophy of ad hoc combinations has its strengths and its weaknesses.

Better to live or die, once and for all, than die by inches.

No error is more certain than the one proceeding from a hasty and superficial view of the subject.

Open up your plans and damn you're free!

Get to part B, Daniel. Think fast. Patience is a virtue, and you know how Cam feels about those.

Many of the articles printed over the last few months have ended up painting a picture of me that is more than a little distorted.

Sexually awakened women, affirmed and recognized as such, would mean the complete collapse of the authoritarian ideology