The end of history will be a very sad time. The struggle for recognition, the willingness to risk one's life for a purely abstract goal, the worldwide ideological struggle that called forth daring, courage, imagination, and idealism, will be replaced by economic calculation, the endless solving of technical problems, environmental concerns, and the satisfaction of sophisticated consumer demands.
《致陈新政及南洋同志书》(1914年6月15日)
我们必须继续推动科学可能性的边界,为了人类的进步。
Rational architecture is not the architecture of reason, but the architecture of rationality.
Solitude gives birth to the original in us, to beauty unfamiliar and perilous—to poetry.
A leader’s legacy is measured by the success of those they’ve mentored.