Any tendency to design for design’s sake, to create a pattern within which the owner must live according to rules set by the designer, is headed for frustration, if not disaster

Myth is the foundation of life; it is the timeless pattern, the pious formula, into which life flows when it reproduces its traits out of the unconscious.

A wise and good man will turn examples of all sorts to his own advantage. The good he will make his patterns, and strive to equal or excel them. The bad he will by all means avoid.

When you’re a visitor to a city, you like to hurry up the habits, lay down a pattern, gain predictability in place of roots.

One should never mistake pattern for meaning.

It is the patient workers, and the active, kindly sympathetic men and women who hold the balance of things secure.

My game is me. I didn’t try to pattern my game after nobody.

Architects, if they are really to be comprehensive, must assume the enormous task of thinking in terms always disciplined to the scale of the total world pattern of needs, its resource flows, its recirculatory and regenerative processes.

Topology is the science of fundamental pattern and structural relationships of event constellations.

A man who pays respect to the great paves the way for his own greatness

The meaning of life is that it is to be lived, and it is not to be traded and conceptualized and squeezed into a pattern of systems

Because one does not want to be disturbed, to be made uncertain, he establishes a pattern of conduct, of thought, a pattern of relationship to man etc. Then he becomes a slave to the pattern and takes the pattern to be the real thing

Life is a process, not a goal; a means but not an end; a constant movement rather than an established pattern.

Relaxation is a physical state, but it is controlled by the mental state. It is acquired by the conscious effort to control the thought as well as the action pattern. It takes perception, practice and willingness to train the mind into new habits of thinking and the body into new habits of action.

All fixed set patterns are incapable of adaptability or pliability. The truth is outside of all fixed patterns.