"I'm a pessimist about probabilities; I'm an optimist……" — Lewis Mumford

"I'm a pessimist about probabilities; I'm an optimist about possibilities."

— Lewis Mumford

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99 Quotes by Lewis Mumford

Lewis Mumford has 99 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…
Western society has accepted as unquestionable a technological imperative that is quite as arbitrary as the most primitive taboo: not…
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…
By his very success in inventing labor-saving devices, modern man has manufactured an abyss of boredom that only the privileged…
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…
When vitality runs high, death takes men by surprise. But if they close their eyes to this possibility, what they…
A man of courage never needs weapons, but he may need bail.
Traditionalists are pessimists about the future and optimists about the past.

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Suffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness, not through insensibility but through greatness of mind. — Aristotle
Each day provides its own gifts. — Marcus Aurelius
Who ever is out of patience is out of possession of their soul. — Francis Bacon
One of the things I learned the hard way was that it doesn't pay to get discouraged. Keeping busy and… — Lucille Ball
I suspect that many of the great cultural shifts that prepare the way for political change are largely aesthetic. A… — J. G. Ballard
Books are not made for furniture, but there is nothing else that so beautifully furnishes a house. — Henry Ward Beecher
Optimism - the doctrine or belief that everything is beautiful, including what is ugly. — Ambrose Bierce
To be positive is to be mistaken at the top of one's voice. — Ambrose Bierce
The essence of optimism is that it takes no account of the present, but it is a source of inspiration,… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer
I try to avoid looking forward or backward, and try to keep looking upward. — Charlotte Bronte
The person interested in success has to learn to view failure as a healthy, inevitable part of the process of… — Joyce Brothers
When life knocks you down, try to land on your back. Because if you can look up, you can get… — Les Brown

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