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“In a night, or in a day,
In a vision, or in none,
Is it therefore the less gone?
All that we see or seem
Is but a dream within a dream.”
- Edgar Allan Poe
“Sexuality is the key to the problem of the psychoneuroses and of the neuroses in general. No one who disdains the key will ever be able to unlock the door.”
- Sigmund Freud
Building: Maastunnel, Rotterdam, 1937 | Arch.’s: J.P. van Bruggen, Ad van der Steur | Photo: 2012
“A perfection of means, and confusion of aims, seems to be our main problem.”
- Albert Einstein
Building: Yoyogi National Gymnasium, 1961 | Arch.: Kenzo Tange | Photo: 2009
“There is a powerful need for symbolism, and that means the architecture must have something that appeals to the human heart.”
- Kenzo Tange
![“Why are there beings at all instead of nothing? That is the question. Presumably it is not arbitrary question, “Why are there beings at all instead of nothing”- this is obviously the first of all questions. Of course it is not the first question in the chronological sense […] And yet, we are each touched once, maybe even every now and then, by the concealed power of this question, without properly grasping what is happening to us. In great despair, for example, when all weight tends to dwindle away from things and the sense of things grows dark, the question looms.”
- Martin Heidegger](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m2urg44lYq1rur0sdo1_1280.jpg)
“Why are there beings at all instead of nothing? That is the question. Presumably it is not arbitrary question, “Why are there beings at all instead of nothing”- this is obviously the first of all questions. Of course it is not the first question in the chronological sense […] And yet, we are each touched once, maybe even every now and then, by the concealed power of this question, without properly grasping what is happening to us. In great despair, for example, when all weight tends to dwindle away from things and the sense of things grows dark, the question looms.”
- Martin Heidegger
