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From Quotes by Lewis Mumford
- 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 frame…
- 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,…
- Integration proceeds by just the opposite route: a deliberate heightening of every organic function; a release of impulses from circumstances that irrationally thwarted them; richer…
- 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…
- Each one of us, as long as life stirs is us, may play a part in extricating ourselves from the power system by asserting our…
- Every work of art is an abstraction from time; it denies the reality of change and decay and death.
- The convenience of timekeeping is greatly overrated; and the people who practice it so faithfully that they lose the capacity for appreciating the fixed and…
- The settlement of America had its origins in the unsettlement of Europe. America came into existence when the European was already so distant from the…
- Unable to create a meaningful life for itself, the personality takes its own revenge: from the lower depths comes a regressive form of spontaneity: raw…
- When art seems to be empty of meaning, as no doubt some of the abstract painting of our own day actually does seem, what the…
- Today, the degradation of the inner life is symbolized by the fact that the only place sacred from interruption is the private toilet.
- One of the functions of intelligence is to take account of the dangers that come from trusting solely to the intelligence.
- The way people in democracies think of the government as something different from themselves is a real handicap. And, of course, sometimes the government confirms…
- Humor is our way of defending ourselves from life's absurdities by thinking absurdly about them.
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