Architecture The rules of navigation never navigated a ship. The rules of architecture never built a house. - Thomas Reid
Architecture The rules of navigation never navigated a ship. The rules of architecture never built a house. - Thomas Reid
Nature Fact It is a question of fact, whether the influence of motives be fixed by laws of nature, so that they shall always have the same effect in the same circumstances. - Thomas Reid
Doubt May A philosopher is, no doubt, entitled to examine even those distinctions that are to be found in the structure of all languages... in that case, such a distinction may be imputed to a vulgar error, which ought to be corrected in philosophy. - Thomas Reid
Power Every indication of wisdom, taken from the effect, is equally an indication of power to execute what wisdom planned. - Thomas Reid
Power Man And, if we have any evidence that the wisdom which formed the plan is in the man, we have the very same evidence, that the power which executed it is in him also. - Thomas Reid
Nature First But when, in the first setting out, he takes it for granted without proof, that distinctions found in the structure of all languages, have no foundation in nature; this surely is too fastidious a way of treating the common sense of mankind. - Thomas Reid
Architecture Present Time World At this present time, matter is still the best way to think of architecture, but I'm not so sure for very long. The computer is radicalizing the way we think about our world. - Ben Nicholson
Architecture The same sort of thing happened in my dispute with the National Trust book: Follies: A National Trust Guide, which implied that the only pleasure you can get from Folly architecture is by calling the architect mad, and by laughing at the architecture. - Ian Hamilton Finlay
Architecture Yet for my part, deeply as I am moved by the religious architecture of the Middle Ages, I cannot honestly say that I ever felt the slightest emotion in any modern Gothic church. - Goldwin Smith
Architecture Soul Architecture, of all the arts, is the one which acts the most slowly, but the most surely, on the soul. - Ernest Dimnet