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Life Quotes by Lewis Mumford
- Sport in the sense of a mass-spectacle, with death to add to the underlying excitement, comes into existence when a population has been drilled and…
- Neither democracy nor effective representation is possible until each participant in the group...devotes a measurable part of his life to furthering its existence.
- 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.
- Only when love takes the lead will the earth, and life on earth, be safe again. And not until then.
- We have created an industrial order geared to automatism, where feeble-mindedness, native or acquired, is necessary for docile productivity in the factory; and where a…
- Nothing about his life is more strange to [man] or more unaccountable in purely mundane terms than the stirrings he finds in himself, usually fitful…
- 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…
- Everyone aimed at security: no one accepted responsibility. What was plainly lacking, long before the barbarian invasions had done their work, long before economic dislocations…
- By putting business before every other manifestation of life, our mechanical and financial civilization has forgotten the chief business of life: namely, growth, reproduction, development.…
- The ultimate gift of conscious life is a sense of the mystery that encompasses it.
- 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…
- Genuine [economic] value lies in the power to sustain or enrich life
- While a great many other ideas and measures are of prime importance for the good life of the community, that which concerns its architectural expression…
- Nothing endures except life: the capacity for birth, growth, and renewal.
- 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…
- A day spent without the sight or sound of beauty, the contemplation of mystery, or the search of truth or perfection is a poverty-stricken day;…
- Life is the only art that we are required to practice without preparation, and without being allowed the preliminary trials, the failures and botches, that…
- Today, the degradation of the inner life is symbolized by the fact that the only place sacred from interruption is the private toilet.
- 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.
- Without fullness of experience, length of days is nothing. When fullness of life has been achieved, shortness of days is nothing. That is perhaps why…
More Life Quotes
- Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it. — Hannah Arendt
- Culture relates to objects and is a phenomenon of the world; entertainment relates to people and is a phenomenon of life. — Hannah Arendt
- We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for… — Hannah Arendt
- I do think the heart can balance out the mind, if your heart is in a good place it can give you… — Alexis Arguello
- I find that it's hard to fully examine one's life and not have faith be part of the discussion. — J. J. Abrams
- Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life. — Aristophanes
- Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies. — Aristotle
- Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies. — Aristotle
- We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. — Aristotle
- Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those… — Aristotle
- Happiness depends upon ourselves. — Aristotle
- I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self. — Aristotle