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Lewis Mumford Quotes

The self holds both a hell and a heaven Picture Quote #1

Genuine [economic] value lies in the power to sustain or enrich life Picture Quote #1

What was once called the objective world is a sort of Rorschach ink blot, into which each culture, each system of science and religion, each type of personality, reads a meaning only remotely derived from the shape and color of the blot itself Picture Quote #1

The great city is the best organ of memory man has yet created Picture Quote #1

Modern Man is the victim of the very instruments he values most. Every gain in power, every mastery of natural forces, every scientific addition to knowledge, has proved potentially dangerous, because it has not been accompanied by equal gains in self-understanding and self-discipline Picture Quote #1

The physical lot of surviving workers had notably improved, with unemployment insurance, social security, and the new health services, while their children’s school education was assured by the government-operated schools: in addition, they had, for intellectual or emotional stimulus and diversion, the radio and the television. But the work itself was no longer as various, as interesting, or as sustaining to the personality Picture Quote #1

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To the extent that the scientist’s capacity for pursuing the truth depends upon costly apparatus, institutional collaboration and heavy capital investment by government or industry he is no longer his own master Picture Quote #1

This metropolitan world, then, is a world where flesh and blood is less real than paper and ink and celluloid Picture Quote #1

Forget the damned motor car and build the cities for lovers and friends Picture Quote #1

Faith in the creative process, in the dynamics of emergence, in the values and purposes that transcend past achievements and past forms, is the precondition of all further growth Picture Quote #1

In war, the army is not merely a pure consumer, but a negative producer Picture Quote #1

A man of courage never needs weapons, but he may need bail Picture Quote #1

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War vies with magic in it's efforts to get something for nothing Picture Quote #1

Humor is our way of defending ourselves from life's absurdities by thinking absurdly about them Picture Quote #1

The ultimate gift of conscious life is a sense of the mystery that encompasses it Picture Quote #1

Utopias rest on the fallacy that perfection is a legitimate goal of human existence Picture Quote #1

War is both the product of an earlier corruption, and a producer of new corruptions Picture Quote #1

Order and creativity are complementary Picture Quote #1

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The final goal of human effort is man's self-transformation Picture Quote #1

War is a specific product of civilization Picture Quote #1

Don't take the will for the deed; get the deed Picture Quote #1

I'm a pessimist about probabilities; I'm an optimist about possibilities Picture Quote #1

Nothing endures except life: the capacity for birth, growth, and renewal Picture Quote #1

Traditionalists are pessimists about the future and optimists about the past Picture Quote #1

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War is the supreme drama of a completely mechanized society Picture Quote #1

Our national flower is the concrete cloverleaf Picture Quote #1

Every generation revolts against it's fathers and makes friends with it's grandfathers Picture Quote #1

To curb the machine and limit art to handicraft is a denial of opportunity Picture Quote #1

The cities and mansions that people dream of are those in which they finally live Picture Quote #1

Because of their origin and purpose, the meanings of art are of a different order from the operational meanings of science and technics: they relate, not to external means and consequences, but to internal transformations, and unless it produce these internal transformations the work of art is either perfunctory or dead Picture Quote #1

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The self holds both a hell and a heaven (Lewis Mumford Quotes) Genuine [economic] value lies in the power to sustain or enrich life (Lewis Mumford Quotes) What was once called the objective world is a sort of Rorschach ink blot, into which each culture, each system of science and religion, each type of personality, reads a meaning only remotely derived from the shape and color of the blot itself (Lewis Mumford Quotes) The great city is the best organ of memory man has yet created (Lewis Mumford Quotes) Modern Man is the victim of the very instruments he values most. Every gain in power, every mastery of natural forces, every scientific addition to knowledge, has proved potentially dangerous, because it has not been accompanied by equal gains in self-understanding and self-discipline (Lewis Mumford Quotes) The physical lot of surviving workers had notably improved, with unemployment insurance, social security, and the new health services, while their children’s school education was assured by the government-operated schools: in addition, they had, for intellectual or emotional stimulus and diversion, the radio and the television. But the work itself was no longer as various, as interesting, or as sustaining to the personality (Lewis Mumford Quotes) To the extent that the scientist’s capacity for pursuing the truth depends upon costly apparatus, institutional collaboration and heavy capital investment by government or industry he is no longer his own master. (Lewis Mumford Quotes) This metropolitan world, then, is a world where flesh and blood is less real than paper and ink and celluloid. (Lewis Mumford Quotes) Forget the damned motor car and build the cities for lovers and friends (Lewis Mumford Quotes) Faith in the creative process, in the dynamics of emergence, in the values and purposes that transcend past achievements and past forms, is the precondition of all further growth. (Lewis Mumford Quotes) In war, the army is not merely a pure consumer, but a negative producer (Lewis Mumford Quotes) A man of courage never needs weapons, but he may need bail (Lewis Mumford Quotes) War vies with magic in it's efforts to get something for nothing (Lewis Mumford Quotes) Humor is our way of defending ourselves from life's absurdities by thinking absurdly about them (Lewis Mumford Quotes) The ultimate gift of conscious life is a sense of the mystery that encompasses it (Lewis Mumford Quotes) Utopias rest on the fallacy that perfection is a legitimate goal of human existence (Lewis Mumford Quotes) War is both the product of an earlier corruption, and a producer of new corruptions (Lewis Mumford Quotes) Order and creativity are complementary (Lewis Mumford Quotes) The final goal of human effort is man's self-transformation (Lewis Mumford Quotes) War is a specific product of civilization (Lewis Mumford Quotes) Don't take the will for the deed; get the deed (Lewis Mumford Quotes) I'm a pessimist about probabilities; I'm an optimist about possibilities (Lewis Mumford Quotes) Nothing endures except life: the capacity for birth, growth, and renewal (Lewis Mumford Quotes) Traditionalists are pessimists about the future and optimists about the past (Lewis Mumford Quotes) War is the supreme drama of a completely mechanized society (Lewis Mumford Quotes) Our national flower is the concrete cloverleaf (Lewis Mumford Quotes) Every generation revolts against it's fathers and makes friends with it's grandfathers (Lewis Mumford Quotes) To curb the machine and limit art to handicraft is a denial of opportunity (Lewis Mumford Quotes) The cities and mansions that people dream of are those in which they finally live (Lewis Mumford Quotes) Because of their origin and purpose, the meanings of art are of a different order from the operational meanings of science and technics: they relate, not to external means and consequences, but to internal transformations, and unless it produce these internal transformations the work of art is either perfunctory or dead (Lewis Mumford Quotes)

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