Each person is a temporary focus of forces, vitalities, and values that carry back to an immemorial past and that reach forward… — Lewis Mumford Copy Share Image
We must give as much weight to the arousal of the emotions and to the expression of moral and aesthetic values as… — Lewis Mumford Copy Share Image
It was Stieglitz's endeavor... to translate the unseen world of tactile values as they develop between lovers not merely into the sexual… — 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
As for the various kinds of montage photography, they are in reality not photography at all but a kind of painting in… — Lewis Mumford Copy Share Image
Genuine [economic] value lies in the power to sustain or enrich life — Lewis Mumford Copy Share Image
Virtue is not a chemical product... it is a historic product, like language and literature; and this means that if we cease… — 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
We must give as much weight to the arousal of the emotions and to the expression of moral and esthetic values as… — Lewis Mumford Copy Share Image
Faith in the creative process, in the dynamics of emergence, in the values and purposes that transcend past achievements and past forms,… — Lewis Mumford Copy Share Image
It has not been for nothing that the word has remained man's principal toy and tool: without the meanings and values it… — 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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