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Men Quotes by Lewis Mumford
- 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 have…
- I would die happy if I knew that on my tombstone could be written these words, "This man was an absolute fool. None of the…
- When vitality runs high, death takes men by surprise. But if they close their eyes to this possibility, what they gain in peace they lose…
- A man of courage never needs weapons, but he may need bail.
- Modern Man is the victim of the very instruments he values most. Every gain in power, every mastery of natural forces, every scientific addition to…
- 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…
- Moment to moment, it turns out, is not God's conception, or nature's. It is man conversing with himself about and through a piece of machinery…
- The final goal of human effort is man's self-transforma tion.
- Safety razors make it hard to grow beards in America: America would be a better place if there were a few bearded, savage, terrible old…
- Geneva has the sleepy tidiness of a man who combs his hair while yet in his pyjamas.
- The cycle of the machine is now coming to an end. Man has learned much in the hard discipline and the shrewd, unflinching grasp of…
- 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…
- The fact that order and creativity are complementary has been basic to man's cultural development; for he has to internalize order to be able to…
- Idealism and science continue to function in separate compartments; and yet 'the happiness of man on earth' depends upon their combination.
- A certain amount of opposition is a great help to a man. Kites rise against, not with, the wind.
- It has not been for nothing that the word has remained man's principal toy and tool: without the meanings and values it sustains, all man's…
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