Contextualism Quotes

Logic, it is true, must yield to history.

I do not believe in objects. I believe only in their relationships.

As far as I'm concerned, there is only one study and that is the way in which things relate to one another.

The world is not that black and white, Rachel. There are no moral absolutes. It is complex.

Clearly, I reject the view that there is one way that is right for everyone and for every problem.

It must be understood that every architecture is bound to its time and manifests itself only in vital tasks and through the materials of its age. It has never been otherwise.

The dialogue of architecture has been centered too long around the idea of truth.

I cannot stand forward, and give praise or blame to any thing which relates to human actions, and human concerns, on a simple view of the subject as it stands stripped of every relation, in all the nakedness and solitude of metaphysical abstraction. Circumstances (which with some gentlemen pass for nothing) give in reality to every political principle its distinguishing colour, and discriminating effect. The circumstances are what render every civil and political scheme beneficial or noxious to mankind.