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By his very success in inventing labor-saving devices, modern man has manufactured an abyss of boredom that only the privileged classes in earlier civilizations have ever fathomed (Lewis Mumford Quotes)
Today, the notion of progress in a single line without goal or limit seems perhaps the most parochial notion of a very parochial century (Lewis Mumford Quotes)
Safety razors make it hard to grow beards in America: America would be a better place if there were a few bearded, savage, terrible old men (Lewis Mumford Quotes)
Architecture is either the prophecy of an unformed society or the tomb of a finished one (Lewis Mumford Quotes)
Every work of art is an abstraction from time; it denies the reality of change and decay and death (Lewis Mumford Quotes)
Today, the degradation of the inner life is symbolized by the fact that the only place sacred from interruption is the private toilet (Lewis Mumford Quotes)
Chaos, if it does not harden into a pattern of disorder, may be more fruitful than a regularity too easily accepted and a success too easily achieved (Lewis Mumford Quotes)
Not sense data or atoms or electrons or packets of energy, but purposes, interests, and meanings, constitute the underlying facts of human experience (Lewis Mumford Quotes)
Without leisure there can be neither art nor science nor fine conversation, nor any ceremonious performance of the offices of love and friendship (Lewis Mumford Quotes)
We have lost faith in the formal powers of the mind, not, as some suppose, because our universe is too difficult to grasp, but because we lack the inner principle of order (Lewis Mumford Quotes)
Geneva has the sleepy tidiness of a man who combs his hair while yet in his pyjamas (Lewis Mumford Quotes)
When vitality runs high, death takes men by surprise. But if they close their eyes to this possibility, what they gain in peace they lose in sensibility and significance (Lewis Mumford Quotes)
The vast material displacements the machine has made in our physical environment are perhaps in the long run less important than it's spiritual contributions to our culture (Lewis Mumford Quotes)
One's worst enormities remain within, and it is only one's vulgar commonplaces of error and folly that turn into murders and suicides, treasons, infidelities, and betrayals (Lewis Mumford Quotes)
Do you want to know what I most regret about my youth? That I didn’t dream more boldly and demand of myself more impossible things; for all one does in maturity is to carve in granite or porphyry the soap bubble one blew in youth! Oh to have dreamed harder! (Lewis Mumford Quotes)
The artist has a special task and duty... reminding people of their humanity and the promise of their creativity (Lewis Mumford Quotes)
Neither democracy nor effective representation is possible until each participant in the group...devotes a measurable part of his life to furthering it's existence (Lewis Mumford Quotes)
Life is an art we are required to practice without preparation, a score that we play at sight even before we have mastered our instruments (Lewis Mumford Quotes)
Every transformation of humanity has rested upon deep stirrings and intuitions, whose rationalized expression takes the form of a new picture of the cosmos and the nature of the human (Lewis Mumford Quotes)
Each person is a temporary focus of forces, vitalities, and values that carry back to an immemorial past and that reach forward into an unthinkable future (Lewis Mumford Quotes)
Only when love takes the lead will the earth, and life on earth, be safe again. And not until then (Lewis Mumford Quotes)
The right to have access to every building in the city by private motorcar in an age when everyone possesses such a vehicle is actually the right to destroy the city (Lewis Mumford Quotes)
The chief function of the city is to convert power into form, energy into culture, dead matter into the living symbols of art, biological reproduction into social creativity (Lewis Mumford Quotes)
A society that gives to one class all the opportunities for leisure and to another all the burdens of work condemns both classes to spiritual sterility (Lewis Mumford Quotes)
He who touches the soil of Manhattan and the pavement of New York, touches, whenever he knows or not, Walt Whitman (Lewis Mumford Quotes)
Nothing is unthinkable, nothing impossible to the balanced person, provided it comes out of the needs of life and is dedicated to life's further development (Lewis Mumford Quotes)
New York is the perfect model of a city, not the model of a perfect city (Lewis Mumford Quotes)
It has not been for nothing that the word has remained man's principal toy and tool: without the meanings and values it sustains, all man's other tools would be worthless (Lewis Mumford Quotes)
Western society has accepted as unquestionable a technological imperative that is quite as arbitrary as the most primitive taboo: not merely the duty to foster invention and constantly to create technological novelties, but equally the duty to surrender to these novelties unconditionally, just because they are offered, without respect to their human consequences (Lewis Mumford Quotes)