Great Sentences

>I t is also impossible to render biological life as something that can be disentangled from political and social life.
> Insofar as architecture is a spatial and technical practice that response to forces in the world, it, like a biological milieu, is "governed by laws indifferent to the intrinsic need of human beings."
> This relationship always sustains a level of false consciousness.
> contemporary time/era/age.
> Architecture is a human endeavor, but this does not guarantee its sympathy with animal life.
>Architecture sustains in various ways throughout its history.
>All life is interconnected by means of analogies and loose linguistic and imagistic affiliation.
> When we speak of architecture and life, we immediately add to biological life a cultural/ technical aspect; we typically speak not of life, but ways of life.
> Art itself is an equally creative enterprise of thought, but one whose object is to create sensible aggregate rather than concept.
> Great artists are also great thinkers; but they think in terms of percepts and affects rather than concepts.
> All these aspects, of course, coexist in reality.
>Photography has taken the illustrative and documentary role, so that modern painting no longer need to fulfill this function, which still burdened early painters.
>Early paintings used to be conditioned by certain religious possibilities" that still given a pictorial meaning to figuration, whereas modern painting is an aesthetic game.
>Our leap of faith is a lifetime thing; what is unknown remains unknown for us and what is hidden remains hidden. Faith is the posture of our lives, the bent of our spirit, the foundation and definition of who we are.
>You know who you are based on your past. You use that to project on what's going to happen in the future. As your past disappears, your ability to project into the future essentially disappear,too.
> Rock was especially interested in whether a change in orientation with respect to the observer or a change with respect to the environment was the primary cause of difference in perceived shape.
> Rock(1973) concluded that the perceptual interpretation of an object or a figure depended on which part was determined to be the "top."
> When people learn the locations of objects in a new environment, they interpret the spatial structure of the layout in terms of a spatial reference system.
> Performance in judgement of relative direction indicated that the aligned view was represented in memory, but the misaligned view was not. There was no behavioral evidence that participants had even seen the misaligned view, even for participants who learned the misaligned view first.