"Every transformation of humanity has rested upon deep……" — Lewis Mumford
"Every transformation of humanity has rested upon deep stirrings and intuitions, whose rationalized expression takes the form of a new picture of the cosmos and the nature of the human."
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99 Quotes by Lewis Mumford
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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…
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Western society has accepted as unquestionable a technological imperative that is quite as arbitrary as the most primitive taboo: not…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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When vitality runs high, death takes men by surprise. But if they close their eyes to this possibility, what they…
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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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Patriarchy is impotent and qualitatively unable to solve even the most simple problems in the cosmos such as picking up…
— Roseanne Barr
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God who is eternally complete, who directs the stars, who is the master of fates, who elevates man from his…
— Alfred Adler
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The cosmos is about the smallest hole that a man can hide his head in.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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One may understand the cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more distant than any star.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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The size and age of the Cosmos are beyond ordinary human understanding. Lost somewhere between immensity and eternity is our…
— Carl Sagan
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My studies in Speculative philosophy, metaphysics, and science are all summed up in the image of a mouse called man…
— Benjamin De Casseres
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When we look deeply into the heart of a flower, we see clouds, sunshine, minerals, time, the earth, and everything…
— Nhat Hanh
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What separates me from most so-called atheists is a feeling of utter humility toward the unattainable secrets of the harmony…
— Albert Einstein
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Science is a method of logical analysis of nature's operations. It has lessened human anxiety about the cosmos by demonstrating…
— Camille Paglia
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Just by being ourselves we are borne toward a destiny far beyond anything we could imagine. It is enough to…
— Deepak Chopra
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The so-called miraculous powers of a great master are a natural accompaniment to his exact understanding of subtle laws that…
— Paramahansa Yogananda
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He had seen too much of the cosmos to have any great faith in man's ability to understand it.
— Poul Anderson
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