Reason is intelligence taking exercise. Imagination is intelligence with an erection.

There comes an hour when protest no longer suffices; after philosophy there must be action; the strong hand finishes what the idea has sketched.

When a woman is talking to you, listen to what she says with her eyes.

A cannonball travels only two thousand miles an hour; light travels two hundred thousand miles a second. Such is the superiority of Jesus Christ over Napoleon.

To love is the half of to believe.

History has its truth, and so has legend. Legendary truth is of another nature than historical truth. Legendary truth is invention whose result is reality. Furthermore, history and legend have the same goal; to depict eternal man beneath momentary man.

Architecture has recorded the great ideas of the human race. Not only every religious symbol, but every human thought has its page in that vast book.