Ludwig Mies van der Rohe Quotes

History keeps teaching us that we can't recognize the important events that are going to trigger changes.

This is a turning point in human history.

There are certain moments in the history of a nation when the choices made define the decades to come.

Once a century the world is divided into before and after.

We are enslaved by anything we do not consciously see. We are freed by conscious perception.

'The Fall' changed my life - that's not an overstatement.

Her great merit is finding out mine - there is nothing so amiable as discernment.

'Yogi Bear' changed my life in ways that I can't explain because it's not a full feature on me. 'Yogi Bear' - there's everything before 'Yogi Bear,' and there's everything after 'Yogi Bear.' Like a major car accident, or the birth of Christ.

Today is either the beginning of the end, or the end of the beginning. Today we are making history.

But whenever history is in the making, there's some kind of intangible feeling.

Certain periods in history suddenly lift humanity to an observation point where a clear light falls upon a world previously dark.

The history of thought may be summed up in these words: it is absurd by what it seeks and great by what it finds.

We awoke one morning in September, and the world lurched on its axis.

I cannot be awake for nothing looks to me as it did before, Or else I am awake for the first time, and all before has been a mean sleep.

A totally new era in the history of mankind.

We've witnessed history in the making.

In opening them, he discovered that he had eyes.

Our eyes are holden that we cannot see things that stare us in the face, until the hour arrives when the mind is ripened; then we behold them, and the time when we saw them not is like a dream.

Rather, Spirit, and enlightement, has to be something that you are fully aware of right now. Something you are already looking at right now... We are all already looking directly at Spirit, we just don't recognize it. We have all the necessary cognition, but not the recognition.

When history calls, history calls.

It might be good to open our eyes and see.

Awareness is always the first step.

It often happens that what stares us in the face is the most difficult to perceive.

Everything went together perfectly, and this is what I mean by knowing. I didn't have to analyze anything. I just recognized what was in front of me. All I had to do was set up and take the picture.

The only event in the history of our species that compares with this one is Genesis. And this is a new kind of Genesis, the Genesis of our species into conscious awareness.