Television is bubble-gum for the mind.
Frank Lloyd WrightRead
Toleration and liberty are the foundations of a great republic.
Interpretation
Toleration and liberty are essential for the success and stability of a society.
This quote emphasizes the importance of toleration and liberty as fundamental principles that support the functioning of a great republic. Frank Lloyd Wright suggests that for a society to thrive, its citizens must embrace and respect diverse perspectives and freedoms, as these elements foster unity and progress within the community.
In practice
During a speech about democracy, one could quote this to emphasize the values of freedom and acceptance.
Television is bubble-gum for the mind.
Harvard takes perfectly good plums as students, and turns them into prunes.
The physician can bury his mistakes, but the architect can only advise his client to plant vines - so they should go as far as possible from home to build their first buildings.
Human beings can be beautiful. If they are not beautiful it is entirely their own fault. It is what they do to themselves that makes them ugly. The longer I live the more beautiful life becomes. If you foolishly ignore beauty, you will soon find yourself without it.
There is nothing more uncommon than common sense.
Nature is the only body of God that we shall ever see.
At one point, I thought life was about acquiring things. But as a I get older, life is totally about losing everything.
It is only the superficial qualities that last. Man's deeper nature is soon found out.
The wars we fought were forced upon us. Thanks to the Israel Defense Forces, we won them all, but we did not win the greatest victory that we aspired to: release from the need to win victories.
Ultimately a hero is a man who would argue with the gods, and so awakens devils to contest his vision. The more a man can achieve, the more he may be certain that the devil will inhabit a part of his creation.
It was when I was the age where you can, as they say, "hear voices" without worrying that something is wrong with you. I "heard voices" all the time as a small child.
It is not the body, nor the personality that is the true self. The true self is eternal. Even on the point of death we can say to ourselves, "my true self is free. I cannot be contained."
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