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

Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passion, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.

Hence, just as the musician accepts on authority the principles taught him by the mathematician, so sacred science is established on principles revealed by God.

[Einstein] said, in effect, that everything should be as simple as it can be but not simpler!

The only problem with demolishing examples of Brutalist architecture is that there are other examples still standing.

A business which can bring itself to the point where it attracts the attention of money should be able to continue on its own feet without being financed.

The power of the will does not extend to making opposites exist at the same time.

We may have, for the first president, and perhaps, one in a century or two afterwards . . . a great and good man, governed by superior motives; but these are not events to be calculated upon in the present state of human nature.

Authentic love is an act of the will that has two vital elements: self-sacrifice and commitment.

Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you; and lo, I am with you always, to the close of the age.

Exactly the same technology can be used for good and for evil. It is as if there were a God who said to us, ‘I set before you two ways: You can use your technology to destroy yourselves or to carry you to the planets and the stars. It’s up to you.’

Yet there is no greater freedom than that of allowing oneself to be guided by the Holy Spirit, renouncing the attempt to plan and control everything to the last detail, and instead letting him enlighten, guide, and direct us, leading us wherever he wills.

Happiness [is] an agreeable sensation arising from contemplating the misery of another.

Few Christian doctrines are taught in the Bible as clearly and as explicitly as is the Real Presence of Jesus in the Eucharist.

The cemetery of the victims of human cruelty in our century is extended to include yet another vast cemetery, that of the unborn.

When people begin to philosophize they seem to think it necessary to make themselves artificially stupid.

You see, this is my business. I built it up and as long as I live I propose to run it the way I want it run.

Those who seek absolute power, even though they seek it to do what they regard as good, are simply demanding the right to enforce their own version of heaven on earth. And let me remind you, they are the very ones who always create the most hellish tyrannies.

I know, without a special revelation, that the planets move in the orbits traced by the Creator’s finger.

Be not intimidated . . . nor suffer yourselves to be wheedled out of your liberties by any pretense of politeness, delicacy, or decency. These, as they are often used, are but three different names for hypocrisy, chicanery, and cowardice.

The more an owner, for his advantage, opens up his property for use by the public in general, the more do his rights become circumscribed by the statutory and constitutional rights of those who use it.

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