"Abortiveness" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... architecture is the symbolical form of art. For it is architecture that paves the way, as it were, for the adequate realization of the God, toiling and wrestling in his service with external nature, and seeking to extricate it from the chaos of finitude and the abortiveness of chance. By this means it levels a space for the God, frames his external surroundings, and builds him his temple as the place for inner contemplation and for reflection upon the eternal objects of the spirit. ...
— The German Classics of The Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Vol. VII. • Various |
