Lewis Mumford Quotes

• As full of flavor as hickory smoke.

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• The Fujiyama of Architecture…at once a lofty mountain and a national shrine.

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• However far modern science and technics have fallen short of their inherent possibilities, they have taught mankind at least one lesson: Nothing is impossible.

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• War vies with magic in its efforts to get something for nothing.

   

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• In war, the army is not merely a pure consumer, but a negative producer.

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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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• Without fullness of experience, length of days is nothing. When fullness of life has been achieved, shortness of days is nothing. That is perhaps why the young have usually so little fear of death; they live by intensities that the elderly have forgotten.

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• War is the supreme drama of a completely mechanized society.

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• Traditionalists are pessimists about the future and optimists about the past.

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• Today, the notion of progress in a single line without goal or limit seems perhaps the most parochial notion of a very parochial century.

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• Today, the degradation of the inner life is symbolized by the fact that the only place sacred from interruption is the private toilet.

  Lewis Mumford

• To curb the machine and limit art to handicraft is a denial of opportunity.

  Lewis Mumford

• The vast material displacements the machine has made in our physical environment are perhaps in the long run less important than its spiritual contributions to our culture.

  Lewis Mumford

• The earth is the Lord’s fullness thereof: this is no longer a hollow dictum of religion, but a directive for economic action toward human brotherhood.

  Lewis Mumford

• The cities and mansions that people dream of are those in which they finally live.

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• The chief function of the city is to convert power into form, energy into culture, dead matter into the living symbols of art, biological reproduction into social creativity.

  Lewis Mumford

• One of the functions of intelligence is to take account of the dangers that come from trusting solely to the intelligence.

  Lewis Mumford

• The artist does not illustrate science (but) he frequently responds to the same interests that a scientist does.

  Lewis Mumford

• Restore human legs as a means of travel. Pedestrians rely on food for fuel and need no special parking facilities.

  Lewis Mumford

• Nothing is unthinkable, nothing impossible to the balanced person, provided it comes out of the needs of life and is dedicated to life’s further development.

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Lewis Mumford (33)

Birth:	19th October, 1895
Death:	26th January, 1990
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Critic, Historian, Philosopher, Sociologist, Writer

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