Marriage does not exist for the benefit of the present generation but for the benefit of the next

When gifts are replaced by rights, so is gratitude replaced by claims. And claims breed resentment

Modernism in architecture went hand in hand with socialist and fascist projects to rid old Europe of its hierarchical past

Classical buildings endure because they are loved, admired and accepted, and enjoy an innate adaption to human needs and purposes.

In the attacks on the old ways of doing things on word in particular came into currency. That word was "kitsch." Once introduced, the word stuck. Whatever you do, it musn't be kitsch. This became the first precept of the modernist artist in every medium.

The consolation of imaginary things is not imaginary consolation.

Freedom can reside only in a point of view, a way of looking upon the system of necessity.Surely this is the one freedom that we may attain to: not to be released from physical reality, but to understand reality and ourselves as part of it, and so be reconciled to what we are.