Architecture Archives - Scott Bradford: Off on a Tangent

Three-Wing Octagonal House

Posted February 1, 2005, 12:35 p.m.

Scott Bradford has been putting his opinions on his website since 1995—before most people knew what a website was. He has been a professional web developer in the public- and private-sector for over twenty years. He is an independent constitutional conservative who believes in human rights and limited government, and a Catholic Christian whose beliefs are summarized in the Nicene Creed. He holds a bachelor’s degree in Public Administration from George Mason University. He loves Pink Floyd and can play the bass guitar . . . sort-of. He’s a husband, pet lover, amateur radio operator, and classic AMC/Jeep enthusiast.

Quotes

Nothing is done, unless the Almighty wills it to be done, either by permitting it, or by actually doing it.

Indeed all who desire to live a godly life in Christ Jesus will be persecuted, while evil men and impostors will go on from bad to worse, deceivers and deceived.

You are, on the one hand, the most complex thing in the entire universe, and on the other, someone who can’t even set the clock on your microwave.

Civilization is the process of setting man free from men.

Hatred stirs up strife, but love covers all offenses. On the lips of him who has understanding wisdom is found, but a rod is for the back of him who lacks sense.

This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing Government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it or their revolutionary right to dismember or overthrow it.

To cultivate kindness is a valuable part of the business of life.

You can observe a lot by watching.

It is only afterward that a new idea seems reasonable. To begin with, it usually seems unreasonable.

Perhaps everything has external and internal aspects. The external properties are those that science can capture and describe—through interactions, in terms of relationships. The internal aspect is the intrinsic essence; it is the reality that is not expressible in the language of interactions and relations.

Success is simple. Do what’s right, the right way, at the right time.

Behind many contemporary affirmations of the freedom of love is a false rationalization, for although love involves freedom, not all freedom involves love.

The Constitution does not prohibit legislatures from enacting stupid laws.

You cannot be half a saint, you must be a whole saint or no saint at all.

For thou didst form my inward parts, thou didst knit me together in my mother’s womb.

Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.

Peace be with you. As the Father has sent me, even so I send you. Receive the Holy Spirit. If you forgive the sins of any, they are forgiven; if you retain the sins of any, they are retained.

The preservation of civilization and culture is now one with the preservation of religion. If the anti-God forces of the world conquer, culture and civilization will disappear, and we will have to start all over again.

If the body of the people will not govern themselves, and govern themselves well too, the consequence is unavoidable . . . a few will, and must govern them.

The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.

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