“You need a prince to make a town in an intellectual sense. Developers want to make money. If they cared about architecture, they'd become architects. I've had so many projects that never came off because they had no sponsor, and not because they were utopian. I just want to build a town that's normal.” IfsWantNeedsNormalProjectsIntellectualTownsArchitectureMaking MoneyArchitectUtopianDevelopersSponsors Author:Leon Krier
“The difference between a pessimistic and an optimistic mind is of such controlling importance in regard to every intellectual function, and especially for the conduct of life, that it is out of the question to admit that both are normal, and the great majority of mankind are naturally optimistic.” MindDifferencesMankindNormalIntellectualFunctionImportanceRegardMajorityOptimisticPessimistic Book:Selected Writings (Values in a Universe of Chance) Source: Selected Writings (Values in a Universe of Chance)
“Conversion is in its essence a normal adolescent phenomenon, incidental to the passage from the child's small universe to the wider intellectual and spiritual life of maturity.” ChildrenSpiritualUniverseNormalIntellectualEssenceConversionMaturityPhenomenonPassagesSpiritual Life Book:The William James Reader Source: The William James Reader
“For a woman ... to explore and express the fullness of her sexuality, her ambitions, her emotional and intellectual capacities, her social duties, her tender virtues, would entail who knows what risks and who knows what truly revolutionary alteration to the social conditions that demean and constrain her. Or she may go on trying to fit herself into the order of the world and thereby consign herself forever to the bondage of some stereotype of normal femininity - a perversion, if you will.” IfsKnowsWorldTryingMayOrderSocialForeverVirtueRiskConditionsEmotionalDutyGoes OnFitNormalAmbitionIntellectualCapacitySexualityRevolutionaryStereotypeFemininityBondageFullnessPerversionAlterationsConstrainSocial Conditions Author:Louise J. Kaplan
“Political correctness is an intellectual sickness. It means lying when telling the truth is not expedient. It is a disgusting habit and yet it is so widespread and so common that it is considered to be normal.” MeanPoliticalLyingCommonHabitTruth IsNormalIntellectualSicknessTelling The TruthDisgustingPolitical CorrectnessCorrectness Author:Ali Sina