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Lewis Mumford has 103 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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Sport in the sense of a mass-spectacle, with death to add to the underlying excitement, comes into existence when a population has…
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Western society has accepted as unquestionable a technological imperative that is quite as arbitrary as the most primitive taboo: not merely the…
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Every generation revolts against its fathers and makes friends with its grandfathers.
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The chief enemy of peace is the spirit of unreason itself: an inability to conceive alternatives, an unwillingness to reconsider old prejudices,…
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By his very success in inventing labor-saving devices, modern man has manufactured an abyss of boredom that only the privileged classes in…
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Misery, mutilation, destruction, terror, starvation and death characterize the process of war and form a principal part of the product.
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War is both the product of an earlier corruption, and a producer of new corruptions.
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In war, the army is not merely a pure consumer, but a negative producer...
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I would die happy if I knew that on my tombstone could be written these words, "This man was an absolute fool.…
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When vitality runs high, death takes men by surprise. But if they close their eyes to this possibility, what they gain in…
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A man of courage never needs weapons, but he may need bail.
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Traditionalists are pessimists about the future and optimists about the past.
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We enjoy the process far more than the proceeds.
— Warren Buffett
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And if such malignity is hidden for a time, it proceeds from the unknown reason that would not be known because the…
— Niccolo Machiavelli
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But whoso is heroic must find crises to try his edge. Human virtue demands her champions and martyrs, and the trial of…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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All human knowledge thus begins with intuitions, proceeds thence to concepts, and ends with ideas.
— Immanuel Kant
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Love of flattery, in most men, proceeds from the mean opinion they have of themselves; in women, from the contrary.
— Jonathan Swift
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But by far the greatest hindrance and aberration of the human understanding proceeds from the dullness, incompetency, and deceptions of the senses;…
— Francis Bacon
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Science, in its ultimate ideal, consists of a set of propositions arranged in a hierarchy, the lowest level of the hierarchy being…
— Bertrand Russell
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Because your brain uses information from the areas around the blind spot to make a reasonable guess about what the blind spot…
— Daniel Gilbert
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Nothing proceeds from nothingness, as also nothing passes away into non-existence.
— Marcus Aurelius
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No wickedness proceeds on any grounds of reason.
— Livy
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In like manner the effect of every action is measured by the depth of the sentiment from which it proceeds. The great…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Science proceeds more by what it has learned to ignore than what it takes into account.
— Galileo Galilei
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