"The door handle is the handshake of the building"

(Juhani Pallasmaa, The Eyes of the Skin: Architecture and the Senses)

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I want wars, in which those filled with vital energy expel the others: this question should dissolve all bonds and drive out those who are world-weary—you should kick them out, shower them with every form of contempt, or lock them up in madhouses, drive them to despair, etc.
-Friedrich Nietzsche

“Put briefly: perhaps the entire evolution of the spirit is a question of the body; it is the history of the development of a higher body that emerges into our sensibility. The organic is rising to yet higher levels. Our lust for knowledge of nature is a means through which the body desires to perfect itself. "
― F.N, The Will to Power.

“I came to realize that one single human being, comprehended in his depth, who gives generously from the treasures of his heart, bestows on us more riches than Caesar or Alexander could ever conquer. Here is our kingdom, the best of monarchies, the best republic. Here is our garden, our happiness.”
― Ernst Jünger, The Glass Bees

“nature, after a thousand animal types, forms a being that contains them all—man.”

“When the healthy nature of man works as a whole, when he feels himself in the world as in a great, beautiful, worthy, and valuable whole, when harmonious contentment yields him pure, free rapture, then would the universe, could it but feel itself, burst forth into rejoicing at having attained its goal, and admire the summit of its own becoming and being.”

— W.Goethe, an essay on J.J. Winckelmann.

one can add the following brief letter of Schiller as encompassing goethe mode of thinking on nature:

“From the simple organism you ascend step by step to the more complex, in order finally to build up the most complex of all, man, developmentally from the materials of the entire structure of nature.”

And do you know what “the world” is to me? Shall I show it to you in my mirror? This world: a monster of energy, without beginning, without end; a firm, iron magnitude of force that does not grow bigger or smaller, that does not expend itself but only transforms…

see how the principles of symmetry and proportions, laid out in the theoretical works of the artist are represented here with utmost precision, whether in his four books on measurement, or in his four books on human proportions, the last work of which was…

concerning the present age's diet, it should be said that it is not what you eat but what you don't eat that is good for both the body and the soul.