Quotes by Ralph Caplan

“All our media are given over to things that are better left unsaid.”

“A chair is the first thing you need when you dont really need anything, and is therefore a peculiarly compelling symbol of civilization. For it is civilization, not survival, that requires design.”

“We are the un-proud non-possessors of objects whose chief substance is that of the transient symbol. Our Puritan fear of the love of things turns out to have been groundless after all, for we do n...”

“A chair is the first thing you need when you don’t really need anything, and is therefore a peculiarly compelling symbol of civilization. For it is civilization, not survival, that requires design.”

“We are … the un-proud non-possessors of objects whose chief substance is that of the transient symbol. Our Puritan fear of the love of things turns out to have been groundless after all, for we do ...”