Since it [architecture] is music in space, as it were a frozen music.

Mastery is revealed in limitation.

There is in every man a certain feeling that he has been what he is from all eternity, and by no means become such in time.

The fear of speculation, the ostensible rush from the theoretical to the practical, brings about the same shallowness in action that it does in knowledge. It is by studying a strictly theoretical philosophy that we become most acquainted with Ideas, and only Ideas provide action with vigour and ethical meaning.

Since it [architecture] is music in space, as it were a frozen music.

Only he who knows God is truly moral.

One is almost tempted to say that the language itself is a mythology deprived of its vitality, a bloodless mythology so to speak, which has only preserved in a formal and abstract form what mythology contains in living and concrete form.