💬 Quotes

"Perhaps it was not possible to be entirely honest, she thought, without hurting someone, or perhaps honesty was merely the most refined form of cruelty."

"It was a strange and a terrible thing, she thought, how one's life could be altered by a glance in a mirror or the turn of a head."

"The only part of the conduct of any one, for which he is amenable to society, is that which concerns others. In the part which merely concerns himself, his independence is, of right, absolute."

"If all mankind minus one, were of one opinion, and only one person were of the contrary opinion, mankind would be no more justified in silencing that one person, than he, if he had the power, would be justified in silencing mankind."

"He who lets the world, or his own portion of it, choose his plan of life for him, has no need of any other faculty than the ape-like one of imitation."

"As it is useful that while mankind are not unanimous in their truest opinions, it should be everywhere open to dissentient voices to prove that the truth is refused, so is it no less necessary that true doctrines should be held as matters of conscious and intelligent preference."

"The despotism of custom is everywhere the standing hindrance to human advancement, being in unceasing antagonism to that disposition to aim at something better than customary, which is called, according to circumstances, the spirit of liberty, or that of progress or improvement."

"The sole end for which mankind are warranted, individually or collectively, in interfering with the liberty of action of any of their number, is self-protection."

"Wer mit Ungeheuern kämpft, muss zusehen, dass er nicht dabei zum Ungeheuer wird. Und wenn du lange in einen Abgrund blickst, blickt der Abgrund auch in dich."

"Es gibt keine moralischen Phänomene, sondern nur eine moralische Auslegung der Phänomene."

"Was mich nicht umbringt, macht mich stärker."

"Der Mensch ist das noch nicht festgestellte Tier."

"Man liebt im Grunde nur seine Begehrungen, nicht das Begehrte."

"Der Wille zur Macht ist der Wille zum Leben."

"When we build, let us think that we build forever."

"Architecture is the art which so disposes and adorns the edifices raised by man for whatsoever uses, that the sight of them may contribute to his mental health, power, and pleasure."

"Good architecture does not merely happen. It must be expressive of the life, the thought, and the morality of the men who built it."

"The greatest glory of a building is not in its stones, nor in its gold. Its glory is in that age, and in that deep sense of voicefulness, of stern watching, of mysterious sympathy..."

"Men usually look at nature with blind eyes; and it is the highest function of the architect to force them to behold what they otherwise would have missed."

"Ornamentation is the principal part of architecture, considered as a distinct art, and it is capable of a peculiar dignity and beauty, when it is founded on the observation of natural objects."