Big Round Table

"What killed the warrior?"

Ordinary things contain the deepest mysteries.

The cumulative effect of architecture during the last two centuries has been like that of a general lobotomy performed on society at large, obliterating vast areas of social experience.

You wearest your head on your feet and wanderst on your hands, On thy hands wanderst Thou.

I know where I am, but I do not feel as though I'm at the spot where I find myself.

I never had a special inclination toward architecture, and since we are already talking about circumstances, I would have been an equally good soldier or actor-had I learned one of these trades.

Forerunner of the Cosmological Essays, Which Contains the Secret of the Universe; on the Marvelous Proportion of the Celestial Spheres, and on the True and Particular Causes of the Number, Magnitude, and Periodic Motions of the Heavens; Established by Means of the Five Regular Geometric Solids

Leaf! you are so big! How can you change your color, then just fall!

Midway upon the journey of our life I found myself within a forest dark, For the straightforward pathway had been lost.

Abandon all hope, ye who enter here

Dominated by an excessive love for my profession, I have surrendered myself to it completely.

If Socrates leaves his house today he will find the sage seated on his doorstep. If Judas go forth tonight it is to Judas his steps will tend. Every life is many days, day after day. We walk through ourselves, meeting robbers, ghosts, giants, old men, young men, wives, widows, brothers-in-law. But always meeting ourselves.

Yeah well, sometimes nothing can be a real cool hand.

Of what is this house composed if not the sun.

I wished to show that space-time is not necessarily something to which one can ascribe a separate existence, independently of the actual objects of physical reality. Physical objects are not in space, but these objects are spatially extended. In the way the concept of 'empty space' loses its meaning.

A house means a family house, a place specially meant for putting children and men in so as to restrict their waywardness and distract them from the longing for adventure and escape they've had since time began.