Lewis Mumford's Profile
Brief about Lewis Mumford: By info that we know Lewis Mumford was born at 1970-01-01. And also Lewis Mumford is American Sociologist.
Some Lewis Mumford's quotes. Goto "Lewis Mumford's quotation" section for more.Every new baby is a blind desperate vote for survival: people who find themselves unable to register an effective political protest against extermination do so by a biological act.
Tags: Against, Political, VoteThe 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.
Tags: Culture, Less, SpiritualA day spent without the sight or sound of beauty, the contemplation of mystery, or the search of truth or perfection is a poverty-stricken day; and a succession of such days is fatal to human life.
Tags: Beauty, Life, TruthLife is the only art that we are required to practice without preparation, and without being allowed the preliminary trials, the failures and botches, that are essential for training.
Tags: Art, Life, TrainingA certain amount of opposition is a great help to a man. Kites rise against, not with, the wind.
Tags: Against, Great, HelpRestore human legs as a means of travel. Pedestrians rely on food for fuel and need no special parking facilities.
Tags: Food, Human, TravelTraditionalists are pessimists about the future and optimists about the past.
Tags: Future, Optimists, PastHowever far modern science and techniques have fallen short of their inherent possibilities, they have taught mankind at least one lesson; nothing is impossible.
Tags: Impossible, Science, ShortNothing 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.
Tags: Impossible, Life, NeedsOne of the functions of intelligence is to take account of the dangers that come from trusting solely to the intelligence.
Tags: Account, Dangers, TrustingToday, the degradation of the inner life is symbolized by the fact that the only place sacred from interruption is the private toilet.
Tags: Life, Place, TodayThe 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.
Tags: Art, Living, PowerThe 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.
Tags: Action, Human, ReligionDon't take the will for the deed; get the deed.
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