#admiration – @nickkahler on Tumblr

If the Movement should ever fall silent, even after thousands of years this witness here will speak. In the midst of a sacred grove of age-old oaks the people of that time will admire in reverent astonishment this first giant among the buildings of the Third Reich.

Adolf Hitler in Cornelius Holtorf, “A Theory of Ruin-Value,” c. 1995

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Admiration of the antique is not admiration of the old but of the natural.

Ralph Waldo Emerson, "On the Antique," c. 1860 (via anderson)

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It was, of course, a lie what you read about my religious convictions, a lie which is being systematically repeated. I do not believe in a personal God and I have never denied this but have expressed it clearly. If something is in me which can be called religious then it is the unbounded admiration for the structure of the world so far as our science can reveal it.

Albert Einstein, Letter to Joseph Dispentiere, 1954 (via tyson)

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[As] mathematical order imposed upon stone, monumental productions [group] servile multitudes under their shadow, inspiring admiration and amazement, stasis and constraint.

Georges Bataille, "On Architecture," c. 1960 (via rosswolfe)

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