"Order and creativity are complementary." — Lewis Mumford

Order and creativity are complementary. - Lewis Mumford

"Order and creativity are complementary."

— 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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We have to rethink our whole energy approach, which is hard to do because we're so dependent on oil, not… — Margaret Atwood
Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit. — Henry Adams
Chaos was the law of nature; Order was the dream of man. — Henry Adams
Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance,… — Melody Beattie
To find a form that accommodates the mess, that is the task of the artist now. — Samuel Beckett
Every passion borders on the chaotic, but the collector's passion borders on the chaos of memories. — Walter Benjamin
We learn from our gardens to deal with the most urgent question of the time: How much is enough? — Wendell Berry
The task of art today is to bring chaos into order. — Theodor Adorno
The battlefield is a scene of constant chaos. The winner will be the one who controls that chaos, both his… — Napoleon Bonaparte
A society deadened by a smothering network of laws while finding release in moral chaos is not likely to be… — Robert Bork
I was brought up in a household of chaos and I never felt stable at home. — Christina Aguilera
I have spoken honestly about being born into a home where there was discord and chaos. I saw my mom… — Christina Aguilera

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