Geneva has the sleepy tidiness of a man who combs his hair while yet in his pyjamas. — Lewis Mumford Copy Share Image
When vitality runs high, death takes men by surprise. But if they close their eyes to this possibility, what they gain in… — 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
Safety razors make it hard to grow beards in America: America would be a better place if there were a few bearded,… — Lewis Mumford Copy Share Image
Idealism and science continue to function in separate compartments; and yet 'the happiness of man on earth' depends upon their combination. — 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… — Lewis Mumford Copy Share Image
The fact that order and creativity are complementary has been basic to man's cultural development; for he has to internalize order to… — Lewis Mumford Copy Share Image
The cycle of the machine is now coming to an end. Man has learned much in the hard discipline and the shrewd,… — Lewis Mumford Copy Share Image
Modern Man is the victim of the very instruments he values most. Every gain in power, every mastery of natural forces, every… — Lewis Mumford Copy Share Image
When cities were first founded, an old Egyptian scribe tells us, the mission of the founder was to 'put gods in their… — Lewis Mumford Copy Share Image
Before modern man can gain control over the forces that now threaten his very existence, he must resume possession of himself. This… — 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
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
Moment to moment, it turns out, is not God's conception, or nature's. It is man conversing with himself about and through a… — Lewis Mumford Copy Share Image
If there are favourable habitats and favorable forms of association for animalsand plants, as ecology demonstrates, why not for men? If each… — Lewis Mumford Copy Share Image
I would die happy if I knew that on my tombstone could be written these words, "This man was an absolute fool.… — Lewis Mumford Copy Share Image
The philosophers of industrialism, from Bacon to Bentham, from Smith to Marx, insisted that the improvement of man's condition was the highest… — 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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