Frank Lloyd Wright Quotes

Deep down there was understanding, not of the facts of our lives so much as of our essential natures.

Tear man out of his outward circumstances; and what he then is; that only is he.

Style is not something applied. It is something that permeates. It is of the nature of that in which it is found, whether the poem, the manner of a god, the bearing of a man. It is not a dress.

Such as we are made of, such we be.

Dress a goat in silk and it's still a goat.

To get a sense of a person, to get their essence, it's not just about details. It is about something you can't really describe.

Spirituality is your original face; it is the discovery of your intrinsic nature.

It's not what you like but what you are like that's important.

Your character is who you really are.

Whatever’s inside making me what I am, it’s like film. Film only works in the dark. Tear it all open and let in the light and you kill it.

There is the physical mind which is mechanical but the awareness which is the essential character (dharma) of the mind is also to some extent present there.

Who you really are, your True Nature, is no more tied to the kind of person you've been than the wind is tied to the skies through which it moves.

You can't bury a part of yourself that's so innate to who you've been, even if it's not for the sake of anything other than a pure enjoyment of it.

Everyone has their own personality, its own character, and if he respects that, everything would finally fall over for good only.

In our relations with the people around us, we forgive them more readily for what they do, which they can help, than for what they are, which they cannot help.

I believe that evidence shows that there is a real spirit, a real Beach, but it is beneath no pavement whatsoever, for all pavements arise within it: Spirit is all-encompassing. It transcends everything, it includes everything.

Pure love of God is our nature, but we are so much diverted, so much distracted by the externals that we've forgotten that it's our essence.

It's not what a man does, it's what a man is that counts!

That which we call character is a reserved force which acts directly by presence, and without means. It is conceived of as a certain undemonstrable force, a familiar or genius, by whose impulses the man is guided, but whose counsels he cannot impart.

What really matters in a pencil is not its wooden exterior, but the graphite inside. So always pay attention to what is happening inside you.

What we call powers, secrets of nature, and force, are all within. In the external world are only a series of changes.

Our essential nature is one of pure potentiality.

There are many virtues in books, but the essential value is the adding of knowledge to our stock by the record of new facts, and, better, by the record of intuitions which distribute facts, and are the formulas which supersede all histories.

That which you call your soul or spirit is your consciousness, and that which you call 'free will' is your mind's freedom to think or not, the only will you have, your only freedom, the choice that controls all the choices you make and determines your life and your character.

Integrity in all things precedes all else. The open demonstration of integrity is essential.