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 “German poet Heinrich Heine was once asked why men no longer build cathedrals. He replied:

“People in those old times had convictions; we moderns only have opinions. And it needs more than a mere opinion to erect a Gothic cathedral.”

Cologne Cathedral took 632 years to complete. Does modern man have the necessary conviction to build something like this today?”

Can you believe someone visualized this, and a culture had so much faith and conviction they spent 6 centuries to build it?! 🤯
Beautiful. 🥹 https://video.nostr.build/30ae98578ceae12119c78c56f1633e13f3b44392ec5a0bb619895cabc10bbb3c.mov