Vers une architecture [Towards an Architecture] (1923)
Kontext: Architecture is the masterly, correct and magnificent play of masses brought together in light. Our eyes are made to see forms in light; light and shade reveal these forms; cubes, cones, spheres, cylinders or pyramids are the great primary forms which light reveals to advantage; the image of these is distinct and tangible within us without ambiguity. It is for this reason that these are beautiful forms, the most beautiful forms. Everybody is agreed to that, the child, the savage and the metaphysician.
„Scribal culture and Gothic architecture were both concerned with light through, not light on.“
— Marshall McLuhan Canadian educator, philosopher, and scholar-- a professor of English literature, a literary critic, and a communicatio… 1911 - 1980
Quelle: 1960s, The Gutenberg Galaxy (1962), p. 120
— Theo van Doesburg Dutch architect, painter, draughtsman and writer 1883 - 1931
Quote in van Doesburg's article: 'Space – time and colour' in 'De Stijl', Aubette Issue, series xv, 87-9, 1928, pp. 26–27
1926 – 1931
— Zulfikar Ali Bhutto Fourth President and ninth Prime Minister of Pakistan 1928 - 1979
Quelle: Letter to his daughter (1978), p. 78 - 79
Kontext: Earlier, I have cautioned you against an outright pragmatist approach. Now I am cautioning you against an outright populist approach. Sometimes a populist decision is, in the long run, not beneficial to the masses. Neither pragmatism nor populism are fundamental political and socio-economic doctrines. Nor do I say that you should play it by ear. I have made this melancholy analysis in anguish. My jail surroundings have not influenced my objectivity. I do not want to see the whole world in a death-cell merely because I am in a death cell. I do not say that the High Court has pronounced a death sentence on the world because a law court has pronounced a perverse death sentence on me. I would be the happiest man if the gloomy winter of mankind were to give way to a shaft of sunlight and to coloured flowers. The world is very beautiful. "A thing of beauty is a joy forever". There is the beauty of the landscape, of the tall mountain, the green plains, the humped deserts. There is the beauty of the flowers and the forests, of the azure oceans and the meandering rivers. There is the splendour of architecture, the magnificence of music, and the sparkle of the dance. Above all, there is the beauty of man and woman, the most perfect creations of God.
— Caridad Svich American writer 1963
On how she describes plays in “Making Invisible Stories Seen, Heard and Felt Interview with Caridad Svich” http://www.critical-stages.org/3/making-invisible-stories-seen-heard-and-felt-interview-with-caridad-svich/ in The IATC webjournal/Revue web de l'AICT – Autumn 2010: Issue No 3
— Van Morrison Northern Irish singer-songwriter and musician 1945
Fair Play
Song lyrics, Veedon Fleece (1974)
— Luc de Clapiers, Marquis de Vauvenargues French writer, a moralist 1715 - 1747
Quelle: Reflections and Maxims (1746), p. 166.
— Ogden Rood American physicist 1831 - 1902
Students' Text-book of Color; Or, Modern Chromatics, with Applications to Art and Industry. New York: D. Appleton and Company. 1881.
„The conversion of mass to energy and light is the prerogative of every star.“
— Antonella Gambotto-Burke, buch The Pure Weight of the Heart
Quelle: The Pure Weight of the Heart (1998), P. 357.
„A family that knows how to play together has the tools to stay together.“
— Warren Farrell author, spokesperson, expert witness, political candidate 1943
Quelle: Father and Child Reunion (2001), p. 59.
— Martin Heidegger German philosopher 1889 - 1976
The Principle of Reason (1955–1956) as translated by Reginald Lilly (1991) <!-- Bloomington: Indiana UP -->
Kontext: The Geschick of being: a child that plays... Why does it play, the great child of the world-play Heraclitus brought into view in the aiôn? It plays, because it plays. The "because" withers away in the play. The play is without "why." It plays since it plays. It simply remains a play: the most elevated and the most profound. But this "simply" is everything, the one, the only... The question remains whether and how we, hearing the movements of this play, play along and accommodate ourselves to the play.
— Theo van Doesburg Dutch architect, painter, draughtsman and writer 1883 - 1931
Quote in van Doesburg's his article: 'Space – time and colour', in 'De Stijl', Aubette Issue, series xv, 87-9, 1928, pp. 26–27
1926 – 1931
— Simone Weil French philosopher, Christian mystic, and social activist 1909 - 1943
Quelle: Simone Weil : An Anthology (1986), Human Personality (1943), p. 55
— Caroline Elizabeth Sarah Norton English feminist, social reformer, and author 1808 - 1877
We have been Friends.
— Henry George American economist 1839 - 1897
Quelle: Social Problems (1883), Ch. 21 : Conclusion
Kontext: I ask no one who may read this book to accept my views. I ask him to think for himself.
Whoever, laying aside prejudice and self-interest, will honestly and carefully make up his own mind as to the causes and the cure of the social evils that are so apparent, does, in that, the most important thing in his power toward their removal. This primary obligation devolves upon us individually, as citizens and as men. Whatever else we may be able to do, this must come first. For "if the blind lead the blind, they both shall fall into the ditch."
Social reform is not to be secured by noise and shouting; by complaints and denunciation; by the formation of parties, or the making of revolutions; but by the awakening of thought and the progress of ideas. Until there be correct thought, there cannot be right action; and when there is correct thought, right action will follow. Power is always in the hands of the masses of men. What oppresses the masses is their own ignorance, their own short-sighted selfishness.
— Ward Cunningham American computer programmer who developed the first wiki 1949
A Conversation with Ward Cunningham (2003), Working the Program
— Bernard Cornwell British writer 1944
En Masse.
French General, p. 271
Sharpe (Novel Series), Sharpe's Enemy (1984)
