Against great advantages in another, there are no means of defending ourselves except love.

The greatest step forward would be to see that everything factual is already theory. The blueness of the sky reveals the basic lawof chromatics. Don't look for anything behind the phenomena, they themselves are the doctrine.

Things which matter most must never be at the mercy of things which matter least.

I have found a paper of mine among some others in which I call architecture 'petrified music.' Really there is something in this; the tone of mind produced by architecture approaches the effect of music.

Mannerism always wants to be finished and doesn't enjoy the process. Genuine, truly great talent, however, finds its greatest satisfaction in the production.

I will say with Lorenzo de Medici that those who do not hope for another life are always dead to this one.

It is equally a mistake to hold one's self too high, or to rate one's self too cheap.