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The myth that John Locke was the philosopher behind the American Republic, is easily refuted by examining how Locke's philosophy steered Thomas Jefferson, for example.
The myth that the founding of American Republic was based on the philosophy of John Locke could only have been maintained, because the history of Leibniz's influence was suppressed.
We fear doing too little when we should do more. Then atone by doing too much, when perhaps we should do less.
Were you to read the British press today, you would learn that the British Empire never forgets its defeats.
But I think it's important that things endure.
Commerce is against morality. Morality is going to lose every time.
I can't climb very seriously now but I was a bit of a freak.
I think and hope there are far more people aware of the need to look after our future.
I think it's really important to use your hands and get close to materials. To be up close to real things like rain and mud; to have contact with nature.
I think the first things that are relevant are that things should work well; they should function.
I think there's a tendency for modern man to become dominated by gadgets and machines, taking us further and further away from the things I've been talking about.
I would think twice about designing stuff for which there was no need and which didn't endure.
I'm not against vodka - they just asked us. They put out some story about us entertaining international celebrities with vodka, which of course wasn't true.
I'm pretty much a vegetarian.
I've always walked and climbed; spent a lot of time in the arctic and places.
Magazines and advertising are flogging the idea that you have to keep changing things and get something new. I think that's balls - evil. But obviously that's your livelihood.
No one ever contributed anything to my designs.
There's this very vulnerable planet of ours with finite resources. Architects and designers have, I think, a fair responsibility for conserving energy and materials, and making things durable.
We used to get published a lot. And there was this vodka advertisement... it embarrassed me a lot afterwards.
Well the most successful of course was this Polypropylene chair.
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