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A world constructed in the most personal and individual fashion, made by people following their true I, will be — in the most public, objective, universal sense — functional, adequate, and harmonious.

Alexander's paradoxical conclusion that the most personally authentic making produces the most universally livable world.

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Only a deliberate process of creating being-like centers in built structure throughout the world encourages the world to become more alive.
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Proposition 4 of the Mid-Book Appendix; the normative and practical conclusion tying individual search for the true self to the creation of a living world.

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The morphology of a living world will, in the end, be that which can only be created by grace, radiant and comfortable, and beautifully ordinary.claim0.821
The making of a living world cannot be separated from each person's search for the true self.claim0.800
The enigmatic conclusion that the most personal, inward search yields the most public, functional harmony.
Something truly relaxed, truly made for human comfort, truly arising from an egoless and unencumbered wish to make things right, and nothing more.quote0.788
Final lines describing the ultimate ordinariness and authenticity of living architecture.
To make a thing which is one, I myself, the maker, must become one with the world.claim0.786
The maker's self-transformation as a prerequisite for creating unity.
We must have a vision of the world in which life, as the foundation of all architecture, is understood as something objective and inspiring.claim0.785
The requirement for a new cosmology that makes life objective.
The simplest thing which can be created, in real terms, is that thing which goes furthest to resolve, complete, hence to elaborate and underpin the structure of the world, its wholeness, which exists at that place.claim0.778
Definition of real simplicity tied to resolving the wholeness.
The single criterion of whether everything is made of beings correlates accurately with the presence of life in the environment.hypothesis0.778
Testable hypothesis that the being-character is a reliable indicator of experienced life.
The life which seems best in our world comes from efforts that are uncensored, natural and straightforward, from impulses close to our emotions and joy.claim0.776
Alexander's opening assertion about the character of true modern life.