Basic Building Blocks

Famous quotes containing the words basic, building and/or blocks:

    “Southerners, whose ancestors a hundred years ago knew the horrors of a homeland devastated by war, are particularly determined that war shall never come to us again. All Americans understand the basic lessons of history: that we need to be resolute and able to protect ourselves, to prevent threats and domination by others.”
    —Jimmy Carter (James Earl Carter, Jr.)

    “I love art, and I love history, but it is living art and living history that I love.... It is in the interest of living art and living history that I oppose so-called restoration. What history can there be in a building bedaubed with ornament, which cannot at the best be anything but a hopeless and lifeless imitation of the hope and vigour of the earlier world?”
    —William Morris (1834–1896)

    “The quest for certainty blocks the search for meaning. Uncertainty is the very condition to impel man to unfold his powers.”
    —Erich Fromm (1900–1980)