“The aesthetic of architecture has to be rooted in a broader idea about human activities like walking, relaxing and communicating. Architecture thinks about how these activities can be given added value.” ThinkingHumansIdeasValuesGivenWalkingActivityCommunicateArchitectureAestheticRootedHuman ActivityAdded Value Author:Thom Mayne
“One of our great allies at present is the Church itself. Do not misunderstand me. I do not mean the Church as we see her spread out through all time and space and rooted in eternity, terrible as an army with banners. That, I confess, is a spectacle which makes our boldest tempters uneasy. But fortunately it is quite invisible to these humans.” HumansMeanChurchSpaceTerribleEternityArmySpreadInvisibleAll TimeAlliesRootedTime And SpaceUneasyBannerScrewtape Letters Book:Paved with Good Intentions: A Demon’s Road Map to Your Soul Source: Paved with Good Intentions: A Demon’s Road Map to Your Soul
“Thanks to being profoundly rooted in Christ, he was able to bear a burden which transcends merely human abilities.” HumansAbleChristAbilityBearsBurdenThanksRootedThankfulness Author:Pope Benedict XVI
“I am not [...] asserting that humans are either genial or aggressive by inborn biological necessity. Obviously, both kindness and violence lie within the bounds of our nature because we perpetrate both, in spades. I only advance a structural claim that social stability rules nearly all the time and must be based on an overwhelmingly predominant (but tragically ignored) frequency of genial acts, and that geniality is therefore our usual and preferred response nearly all the time. [...] [T]he center of human nature is rooted in ten thousand ordinary acts of kindness that define our days.” HumansLyingSocialKindnessViolenceHuman NatureThousandTenOrdinaryClaimsResponseBoundsStabilityAggressiveUsualRootedIgnoredFrequencyActs Of KindnessSpadesGeniality Author:Stephen Jay Gould