“A free America… means just this: individual freedom for all, rich or poor, or else this system of government we call democracy is only an expedient to enslave man to the machine and make him like it.”
And
“Early in life I had to choose between honest arrogance and hypocritical humility. I chose the former and have seen no reason to change.”
And
“Freedom is from within.”
And
“Get the habit of analysis – analysis will in time enable synthesis to become your habit of mind.”
And
“Harvard takes perfectly good plums as students, and turns them into prunes.”
And
“I believe totally in a Capitalist System, I only wish that someone would try it.”
And
“I know the price of success: dedication, hard work and an unremitting devotion to thing you want to see happen.”
And
“Life always rides in strength to victory, not through internationalism… but only through the direct responsibility of the individual.”
And
“Study nature, love nature, stay close to nature. It will never fail you.”
And
“The heart is the chief feature of a functioning mind.”
And
“The longer I live, the more beautiful life becomes.”
And
“The present is the ever moving shadow that divides yesterday from tomorrow. In that lies hope.”
And
“The thing always happens that you really believe in; and the belief in a thing makes it happen.”
And
“The truth is more important than the facts.”
And
“”Think simple” as my old master used to say – meaning reduce the whole of its parts into the simplest terms, getting back to first principles.”
And
“There is nothing more uncommon than common sense.”
And
“No house should ever be on a hill or on anything. It should be of the hill. Belonging to it. Hill and house should live together each the happier for the other.”
And
“A free America, democratic in the sense that our forefathers intended it to be, means just this: individual freedom for all, rich or poor, or else this system of government we call ‘democracy’ is only an expedient to enslave man to the machine and make him like it.”
And
“Every great architect is — necessarily — a great poet. He must be a great original interpreter of his time, his day, his age.”
And
“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. Your life will be impoverished. But if you invest in beauty, it will remain with you all the days of your life.”
And
“The present is the ever moving shadow that divides yesterday from tomorrow. In that lies hope.”
Wikipedia: Frank Lloyd Wright
