"We have lost faith in the formal powers……" — Lewis Mumford
"We have lost faith in the formal powers of the mind, not, as some suppose, because our universe is too difficult to grasp, but because we lack the inner principle of order."
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99 Quotes by Lewis Mumford
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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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