Wednesday, Jan. 25, 2012 2:40 p.m.
Between believing and not believing, it is better to believe.
Between acting and disintegrating, it is better to act.
To be young and full of health means to be able to produce a great deal, but it takes years of experience to be able to produce well.
To be nourished by earlier civilizations enables us to disspate obscurity and bring a clear judgement to bear on things. It is defeatist to say that once once has left one's student days behind one is nothing but a has-been. They decide that we are old? Old? The twentieth century in Europe may be the fine maturity of a civilization. Old Europe is not old at all. Those are just words. Old Europe is full of vigour. Our spirit, nourished by centuries, is alert and inventive. Europe's strength is in her head, whereas America has strong arms and the noble sentimentality of adolescence, If in America they produce and feel, in Europe we think. Le Corbusier 1925
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