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God is the great mysterious motivator of what we call nature and it has been said often by philosophers, that nature is the will of God. And, I prefer to say that nature is the only body of God that we shall ever see. If we wish to know the truth concerning anything, we'll find it in the nature of that thing.

— Frank Lloyd Wright Truth Against the World : Frank Lloyd Wright speaks for an organic architecture (1987)

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It is where life is fundamental and free that men develop the vision needed to reveal the human soul in the blossoms it puts forth.

Lecture to the Chicago Women's Aid (1918)

The physician can bury his mistakes, but the architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.

Architecture is the triumph of Human Imagination over materials, methods, and men, to put man into possession of his own Earth.

The thing always happens that you really believe in; and the belief in a thing makes it happen.

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Get the habit of analysis- analysis will in time enable synthesis to become your habit of mind.

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When the mind is not dissipated upon extraneous things, nor diffused over the world about us through the senses, it withdraws within itself, and of its own accord ascends to the contemplation of God.

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Once you accept the existence of God — however you define him, however you explain your relationship to him — then you are caught forever with his presence in the center of all things.

Morris West The Clowns of God (1981)

God seeks comrades and claims love,
the Devil seeks slaves and claims obedience.

Rabindranath Tagore Fireflies (1928)

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