« All Things Disappear Quotes
·
Lewis Mumford's Page
Things Disappear Quotes by Lewis Mumford
1 Things Disappear quote by Lewis Mumford
More Quotes by Lewis Mumford
Lewis Mumford has 103 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
-
Sport in the sense of a mass-spectacle, with death to add to the underlying excitement, comes into existence when a population has…
-
Western society has accepted as unquestionable a technological imperative that is quite as arbitrary as the most primitive taboo: not merely the…
-
Every generation revolts against its fathers and makes friends with its grandfathers.
-
The chief enemy of peace is the spirit of unreason itself: an inability to conceive alternatives, an unwillingness to reconsider old prejudices,…
-
By his very success in inventing labor-saving devices, modern man has manufactured an abyss of boredom that only the privileged classes in…
-
Misery, mutilation, destruction, terror, starvation and death characterize the process of war and form a principal part of the product.
-
War is both the product of an earlier corruption, and a producer of new corruptions.
-
In war, the army is not merely a pure consumer, but a negative producer...
-
I would die happy if I knew that on my tombstone could be written these words, "This man was an absolute fool.…
-
When vitality runs high, death takes men by surprise. But if they close their eyes to this possibility, what they gain in…
-
A man of courage never needs weapons, but he may need bail.
-
Traditionalists are pessimists about the future and optimists about the past.
See all 103 quotes by Lewis Mumford »
More Things Disappear Quotes
Popular Things Disappear quotes from across the collection:
-
The person who is free of sexuality, whose sexuality has become a transformed phenomenon, is also free of money, is also free…
— Rajneesh
-
When people see some things as beautiful, other things become ugly. When people see some things as good, other things become bad.…
— Laozi
-
The society of merchants can be defined as a society in which things disappear in favor of signs. When a ruling class…
— Albert Camus
-
Happiness, I think, lies on the surface... when one plunges under the surface all the buoyant things disappear, and the farther down…
— Lewis Mumford
-
How very near us stand the two vast gulfs of time, the past and the future, in which all things disappear.
— Marcus Aurelius
-
Good luck and believe me, dearest Doc - it's better to look at the sky than live there. Such an empty place;…
— Truman Capote
-
Some things are forgotten, some things disappear, some things die.
— Haruki Murakami
-
...that's how memory works ... Things disappear without your permission, then come back again without your permission.
— Kristin Cashore
See all Things Disappear Quotes »
Browse Lewis Mumford Quotes by Category