Scientific naturalism is a story that reduces reality to physical particles and impersonal laws, [and] portrays life as a meaningless competition among organisms that exist only to survive and reproduce.
Philip JohnsonAnybody can build a building, putting some doors into it, but how many times have you been in a building that moves you to tears the way Beethoven's 'Eighth' does?
Philip JohnsonI haven't any wisdom - just a child like everybody else. I'm not as great as Frank Lloyd Wright.
Philip JohnsonThe first complete sentence out of my mouth was probably that line about consistency being the hobgoblin of small minds.
Philip Johnson