Adventure is humdrum and routine unless one assimilates it, unless one relates it to a central core which grows within and gives… — Lewis Mumford Copy Share Image
Everyone aimed at security: no one accepted responsibility. What was plainly lacking, long before the barbarian invasions had done their work, long… — Lewis Mumford Copy Share Image
Today, the degradation of the inner life is symbolized by the fact that the only place sacred from interruption is the private… — Lewis Mumford Copy Share Image
While a great many other ideas and measures are of prime importance for the good life of the community, that which concerns… — Lewis Mumford Copy Share Image
Life is an art we are required to practice without preparation, a score that we play at sight even before we have… — Lewis Mumford Copy Share Image
Life is the only art that we are required to practice without preparation, and without being allowed the preliminary trials, the failures… — Lewis Mumford Copy Share Image
Man's Chief purpose is the creation and preservation of values; that is what gives meaning to our civilization, and the participation in… — Lewis Mumford Copy Share Image
Utopias rest on the fallacy that perfection is a legitimate goal of human existence. — Lewis Mumford Copy Share Image
“The earth itself was but a mean stopping place, a wayside tavern of ill fame, on the way to these other worlds.… — Lewis Mumford Copy Share Image
We have created an industrial order geared to automatism, where feeble-mindedness, native or acquired, is necessary for docile productivity in the factory;… — Lewis Mumford Copy Share Image
The ultimate gift of conscious life is a sense of the mystery that encompasses it. — Lewis Mumford Copy Share Image
Nothing is unthinkable, nothing impossible to the balanced person, provided it comes out of the needs of life and is dedicated to… — Lewis Mumford Copy Share Image
A day spent without the sight or sound of beauty, the contemplation of mystery, or the search of truth or perfection is… — Lewis Mumford Copy Share Image
“This metropolitan world, then, is a world where flesh and blood is less real than paper and ink and celluloid. It is… — Lewis Mumford Copy Share Image
Neither democracy nor effective representation is possible until each participant in the group...devotes a measurable part of his life to furthering its… — Lewis Mumford Copy Share Image
Without fullness of experience, length of days is nothing. When fullness of life has been achieved, shortness of days is nothing. That… — Lewis Mumford Copy Share Image
(The processes are) doubly ruinous: they impoverish the earth by hastily removing, for the benefit of a few generations, the common resources… — Lewis Mumford Copy Share Image
Each one of us, as long as life stirs is us, may play a part in extricating ourselves from the power system… — Lewis Mumford Copy Share Image
Genuine [economic] value lies in the power to sustain or enrich life — Lewis Mumford Copy Share Image
Humor is our way of defending ourselves from life's absurdities by thinking absurdly about them. — Lewis Mumford Copy Share Image
The wonder is not that so much cacophony appears in our actual individual lives, but that there is any appearance of harmony… — Lewis Mumford Copy Share Image
Nothing about his life is more strange to [man] or more unaccountable in purely mundane terms than the stirrings he finds in… — Lewis Mumford Copy Share Image
“A day spent without the sight or sound of beauty, the contemplation of mystery, or the search of truth is a poverty-stricken… — Lewis Mumford Copy Share Image
Unable to create a meaningful life for itself, the personality takes its own revenge: from the lower depths comes a regressive form… — Lewis Mumford Copy Share Image
What plethora of material goods can possibly atone for a waking life so humanly belittling, if not degrading, as the push-button tasks… — Lewis Mumford Copy Share Image
Restore human legs as a means of travel. Pedestrians rely on food for fuel and need no special parking facilities. — Lewis Mumford Copy Share Image
Mechanical instruments, potentially a vehicle of rational human purposes, are scarcely a blessing when they enable the gossip of the village idiot and the… — Lewis Mumford Copy Share Image
However far modern science and techniques have fallen short of their inherent possibilities, they have taught mankind at least one lesson; nothing is impossible. — Lewis Mumford Copy Share Image
Iron and coal dominated everywhere, from grey to black: the black boots, the black stove-pipe hat, the black coach or carriage, the black iron… — Lewis Mumford Copy Share Image
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… — Lewis Mumford Copy Share Image
Each person is a temporary focus of forces, vitalities, and values that carry back to an immemorial past and that reach forward into an… — Lewis Mumford Copy Share Image
Adventure is humdrum and routine unless one assimilates it, unless one relates it to a central core which grows within and gives it contour… — Lewis Mumford Copy Share Image
Safety razors make it hard to grow beards in America: America would be a better place if there were a few bearded, savage, terrible… — Lewis Mumford Copy Share Image
A society that gives to one class all the opportunities for leisure, and to another all the burdens of work, dooms both classes to… — Lewis Mumford Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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