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The Greeks possessed a knowledge of human nature we seem hardly able to attain to without passing through the strengthening hibernation of a new barbarism.

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Georg C. Lichtenberg
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Category: Knowledge

Authors

A. A. MilneA. B. YehoshuaA. Bartlett GiamattiA. C. BensonA. E. HousmanA. E. van VogtA. J. JacobsA. J. LangerA. J. LieblingA. J. McLean

Topics Index

1 Age

  • 1. But look I was born in 1956 the peak year for births in US history. I think I'm very representative of many of the thought processes my generation have been through and by and large people of my age have had their imprint planted on the consciousness of western society for a long time.
  • 2. I would like to see more airplay for all artists no matter what age. I think there's a lot of money being spent toward the young guys but a lot of the older guys are the ones who blazed the trail for those young guys.
  • 3. In this electronic age we see ourselves being translated more and more into the form of information moving toward the technological extension of consciousness.

2 Amazing

  • 1. I had a friend whose family had dinner together. The mother would tuck you in at night and make breakfast in the morning. They even had a spare bike for a friend. It just seemed so amazing to me.
  • 2. I was informed yesterday that there's a Twitter account for my laugh. Very hard to get used to things like that. Pretty amazing.
  • 3. I have a ridiculous fear of sharks but I'd jump in the water in a second for an amazing role.

3 Anger

  • 1. When angry count to ten before you speak. If very angry count to one hundred.
  • 2. All anger is not sinful because some degree of it and on some occasions is inevitable. But it becomes sinful and contradicts the rule of Scripture when it is conceived upon slight and inadequate provocation and when it continues long.
  • 3. Men make angry music and it's called rock-and-roll women include anger in their vocabulary and suddenly they're angry and militant.

4 Anniversary

  • 1. Since I wrote to you last we have got our chapel beautifully lighted with gas and have had our anniversary.
  • 2. More marriages might survive if the partners realized that sometimes the better comes after the worse.
  • 3. One should believe in marriage as in the immortality of the soul.

5 Architecture

  • 1. Architects in the past have tended to concentrate their attention on the building as a static object. I believe dynamics are more important: the dynamics of people their interaction with spaces and environmental condition.
  • 2. I love building spaces: architecture furniture all of it probably more than fashion. The development procedure is more tactile. It's about space and form and it's something you can share with other people.
  • 3. I believe very strongly and have fought since many years ago – at least over 30 years ago – to get architecture not just within schools but architecture talked about under history geography science technology art.
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