A world with pyramids Which would you choose— a world with pyramids, or a world without? Hayao Miyazaki, The Wind Rises beautyevil
To know evil For to know evil, for them, was to know it not by pure intelligence by by experience. Charles Williams, The Mind of the Maker evil
If you look for the light If you look for the light, you can often find it. But if you look for the dark, that is all you will ever see. — Uncle Iroh The Legend of Korra lightdarknessgoodnessevil
In the walls and mosses If we reach such a very ordinary state of daily life, and then back it up with building and construction that comes from the depths in us, then that gradually accumulates our value in the world, all of us together as a whole. Later, then, perhaps hundreds of years later, people will look back at our stones and say to themselves, "My word, those people way back then — they certainly knew how to live," and they would say this because they could see the lingering whispers in the walls and mosses, and could read them, and could treasure them, and would learn from these traces how to live like that again. Christopher Alexander, The Battle for the Life and Beauty of the Earth From body to body life