The scaffolding must be removed once the house is built.

When we have a great goal we are superior even to justice, not merely to our deeds and our judges.

In architecture the pride of man, his triumph over gravitation, his will to power, assume a visible form. Architecture is a sort of oratory of power by means of forms.

Our knowledge will take its revenge on us, just as ignorance exacted its revenge during the Middle Ages.

The genius-in work and in deed-is necessarily a squanderer: the fact that he spends himself constitutes his greatness.

What is great in man is that he is a bridge and not a goal: what there is to love in man is that he is a going-over and a going-under.

In the world of high finance the shilling of the idle rich man can buy more than that of the poor, industrious man.