Frei Otto Quotes

Paradise is exactly like where you are right now... only much, much better.

Wheresoever she was, there was Eden.

Paradise A concept embraced by almost every culture. A land of peace and harmony. Some say it doesn't belong to the earth, that there is no Shangri-la, no utopian wilderness for the living.

I have read descriptions of Paradise that would make any sensible person stop wanting to go there.

You can just drift unhappily towards this vision of heaven on earth, and ultimately that is what architecture is a vision of: Heaven on earth, at it's best.

My idea of heaven is not writing.

Music is harmony, harmony is perfection, perfection is our dream, and our dream is heaven.

I can't imagine a more ideal life.

On earth there is no heaven, but there are pieces of it.

I'd like to think there is a Heaven, and it starts from the happiest day in your life.

Life everlasting in a state of happiness is the greatest desire of all men.

To sit with a dog on a hillside on a glorious afternoon is to be back in Eden, where doing nothing was not boring - it was peace.

If there is no war in Paradise, how can there be any delights there?

I suspect that perfect happiness is not possible for me. I suppose if I was ever selected for eternal life - the moment I was informed - that would bring me the closest.

Paradise does not exist, but we must nonetheless strive to be worthy of it.

Yo, que me figuraba el Paraíso / Bajo la especie de una biblioteca. I have always imagined Paradise as a kind of library.

Heaven isnot a place, and it isnot atime.Heaven isbeing perfect.

Let's build Paradise again.

All of heaven we have below.

To Adam Paradise was home. To the good among his descendants home is paradise.

All of the religions - with the exception of Tibetan Buddhism, which doesn't believe in a heaven - teach that heaven is a better place. At the end of the program, I say that heaven is a place where you are happy. All of the religions have that in common.

In my wildest dreams, I could not have imagined a sweeter life.

The only paradise is paradise lost.

Utopia means elsewhere.

Death is the most blessed dream.