Fools and wise men are equally harmless. It is the half-fools and half-wise that are dangerous.

The fate of the architect is the strangest of all. How often he expends his whole soul, his whole heart and passion, to produce buildings into which he himself may never enter.

If the whole world I once could see On free soil stand, with the people free Then to the moment might I say, Linger awhile. . .so fair thou art.

Neither art thou the man to catch the fiend and hold him! [Ger., Du bist noch nicht der Mann den Teufel festzuhalten.

There is no past we can bring back by longing for it. There is only an eternal now that builds and creates out of the past something new and better.

I call architecture frozen music.

Unlimited activity, of whatever kind, must end in bankruptcy.