Love of learning led to monasteries, which became the cradle of academic guilds.
The beauty of a finely worked object points to the beauty of the craftsmanship. The beauty of the craftsmanship points to the beauty of the name which was the source of the craftsmanship. The beauty of the name of the craftsman's art points to the beauty of the craftsman's attributes manifested in that art.
Jaipur, like Florence or Kyoto, other artisan-rich cities to which it roughly compares, has always been known for its craftsmanship.
The chains which cramp us most are those which weigh on us least.
You can never solve a problem on the level on which it was created.
Inferiors revolt in order that they may be equal, and equals that they may be superior. Such is the state of mind which creates revolutions.
Great indeed is the sublimity of the Creative, to which all beings owe their beginning and which permeates all heaven.
God's first creature, which was light.
As the births of living creatures are at first ill-shapen, so are all innovations, which are the births of time.
If humans were totally unstructured creatures, they would be... a tool which can properly be shaped by outside forces.
The truth is, I have absolutely no professional credentials - literally, which is why I'm teaching at MIT.
The whole history of civilization is strewn with creeds and institutions which were invaluable at first, and deadly afterwards.
There are crimes which become innocent and even glorious through their splendor, number and excess.
You have to be able to analyze yourself and critique yourself from every which way.
David Cronenberg's 'Maps to the Stars' is a Hollywood monster movie in which Hollywood is the monster.
From such crooked wood as that which man is made of, nothing straight can be fashioned.
When the Christians, upon these occasions, received martyrdom, they were ornamented, and crowned with garlands of flowers; for which they, in heaven, received eternal crowns of glory.
Communism is not love. Communism is a hammer which we use to crush the enemy.
In our gliding experiments we had had a number of experiences in which we had landed upon one wing, but the crushing of the wing had absorbed the shock, so that we were not uneasy about the motor in case of a landing of that kind.
An education which does not cultivate the will is an education that depraves the mind.
