Traditionalists are pessimists about the future and optimists about the past.
Lewis Mumford
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- Life is the only art that we are required to practice without preparation, and without being allowed the preliminary trials, the failures and botches, that are essential for training.
- A day spent without the sight or sound of beauty, the contemplation of mystery, or the search of truth or perfection is a poverty-stricken day and a succession of such days is fatal to human life.
- Forget the damned motor car and build the cities for lovers and friends.
- A man of courage never needs weapons, but he may need bail.
- Without fullness of experience, length of days is nothing. When fullness of life has been achieved, shortness of days is nothing. That is perhaps why the young have usually so little fear of death they live by intensities that the elderly have forgotten.