We build on the ice, and write on the waves of the sea. The waves roaring, pass away; the ice melts, and away goes our palace, like our thoughts.
— Herder
Herder
Human endeavors built on unstable foundations are as temporary and futile as ice and waves.
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If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; there is where they should be. Now put foundations und…
— Thoreau
“Fancy plays like a squirrel in its circular prison and is happy,” wrote John Ruskin, “but imagination is a pilgrim on t…
— John Ruskin
The desires and longings of man are vast as eternity, and they point him to it.
— Tryon Edwards
Where are you going? What are you doing today to get there? You see things and say "Why?" but I dream of things that nev…
— George Bernard Shaw
They build too low who build beneath the skies.
— Young
Ever building to the clouds, and never reflecting that the poor narrow basis cannot sustain the giddy, tottering column.
— Schiller
