Morsels for thought. . .

     During [our] lifetime, architects had largely championed sterility, which is order bled of purpose, and celebrated power, which is meaning stripped of grace.  By rejecting the fundamentals of the very civilization that made possible its rise, modernism and its philosophical stepchildren offered flash in place of genuine beauty, sensation in place of hope.



     All of humanity's follies seemed worth embracing if that were the price to preserve everything beautiful in human civilization.  Although the human heart is selfish and arrogant, so many struggle against their selfishness and learn humility; because of them, as long as there is life, there is hope that beauty lost can be rediscovered, that what has been reviled can be redeemed.



Both quotes, like unexpected gems found along a winding path, from Dean Koontz, The Taking.