When I investigate and when I discover that the forces of the heavens and the planets are within ourselves, then truly I seem to be living among the gods.
Source: From Kuchling Quotations, an internet collection of quotations.
-- Leon Battista Alberti, (Feb 14 1404-1472), Italian architect, philospher, poet; He was the principal initiator of Renaissance art theory; wrote De re aedificatoria, 10 vols 1485 which stimulated interest in Roman architecture.