The principle of the Gothic architecture is infinity made imaginable.

  • -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge 柯勒律治

哥特式建筑的原则是无限的,这是可以想象的。

相关名言

If any philosopher had been asked for a definition of infinity, he might have produced some unintelligible rigmarole, but he would certainly not have been able to give a definition that had any meaning at all.

如果有哪个哲学家被要求对无穷大下一个定义,他可能会说出一些难以理解的冗长乏味的话,但他肯定无法给出一个有任何意义的定义。

No house should ever be on a hill, or on anything. It should be of the hill. Hill and house should live together, each the happier for the other.

任何房子都不应该建在山上或任何东西上。应该是在山上。山和房子应该住在一起,彼此为对方感到更幸福。

The Romans were not inventors of the supporting arch, but its extended use in vaults and intersecting barrel shapes and domes is theirs.

罗马人并不是支撑拱门的发明者,但它在拱顶、交叉的桶形和圆顶上的广泛应用是他们的发明。

I am incapable of conceiving infinity, and yet I do not accept finity.

我无法想象无限,但我不接受有限。