Lewis Mumford Quotes - Page 4

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• The final goal of human effort is man's self-transforma tion.

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  Men, Self, Goal

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

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  War, Drama, Supreme

  Lewis Mumford, Langdon Winner (2010). “Technics and Civilization”, p.309, University of Chicago Press

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• Idealism and science continue to function in separate compartments; and yet 'the happiness of man on earth' depends upon their combination.

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  Men, Earth, Combination

  Lewis Mumford (2013). “The Story of Utopias”, p.181, Read Books Ltd

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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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  Peace, War, Misery

  Lewis Mumford, Langdon Winner (2010). “Technics and Civilization”, p.93, University of Chicago Press

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• The artist does not illustrate science; ... [but] he frequently responds to the same interests that a scientist does, and expresses by a visual synthesis what the scientist converts into analytical formulae or experimental demonstrations.

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  Science, Artist, Expression

  "Revolt in the Arts: A Survey of the Creation, Distribution and Appreciation of Art in America". Book by Oliver Martin Sayler, p. 117, 1930.

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

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  Art, Opportunity, Machines

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• Unfortunately, once an economy is geared to expansion, the means rapidly turn into an end and "the going becomes the goal." Even more unfortunately, the industries that are favored by such expansion must, to maintain their output, be devoted to goods that are readily consumable either by their nature, or because they are so shoddily fabricated that they must soon be replaced. By fashion and built-in obsolescence the economies of machine production, instead of producing leisure and durable wealth, are duly cancelled out by the mandatory consumption on an even larger scale.

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  Fashion, Mean, Goal

  LEWIS MUMFORD (1961). “THE CITY IN HISTORY”

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• 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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  Needs, Development, Impossible

  "The Conduct Of Life". Book by Lewis Mumford. Chapter: "The Way and the Life", 1951.

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

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  Mountain, Shrines, Architecture

  1953 Of Frank Lloyd Wright.'A Phoenix Too Infrequent', in the NewYorker, 28 Nov.

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• The self holds both a hell and a heaven.

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  Self, Heaven, Hell

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• The physical lot of surviving workers had notably improved, with unemployment insurance, social security, and the new health services, while their children's school education was assured by the government-operated schools: in addition, they had, for intellectual or emotional stimulus and diversion, the radio and the television. But the work itself was no longer as various, as interesting, or as sustaining to the personality.

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  Children, School, Emotional

  Lewis Mumford (1974). “The Pentagon of Power”, Harcourt

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• The mind reproduces itself by transmitting its symbols to other intermediaries, human and mechanical, than the particular brain that first assembled them.

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  Brain, Mind, Firsts

  Lewis Mumford (1967). “The Myth of the Machine: Technics and human development”, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich

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• The wonder is not that so much cacophony appears in our actual individual lives, but that there is any appearance of harmony and progression.

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  Progress, Cacophony, Wonder

  "The Conduct Of Life". Book by Lewis Mumford, 1951.

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• The settlement of America had its origins in the unsettlement of Europe. America came into existence when the European was already so distant from the ancient ideas and ways of his birthplace that the whole span of the Atlantic did not widen the gulf.

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  Discovery, Europe, Birth Place

  Lewis Mumford (1983). “The golden day: a study in American literature and culture”, Greenwood Pub Group

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• Genuine [economic] value lies in the power to sustain or enrich life

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  Lying, Economic Value, Genuine

  Lewis Mumford, Langdon Winner (2010). “Technics and Civilization”, p.76, University of Chicago Press

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• When vitality runs high, death takes men by surprise. But if they close their eyes to this possibility, what they gain in peace they lose in sensibility and significance.

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  Running, Peace, Eye

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

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  Peace, War, Army

  Lewis Mumford, Langdon Winner (2010). “Technics and Civilization”, p.93, University of Chicago Press

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• Nothing endures except life: the capacity for birth, growth, and renewal.

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  Growth, Birth, Immortality

  Lewis Mumford (2016). “The Culture of Cities”, p.25, Open Road Media

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• This metropolitan world, then, is a world where flesh and blood is less real than paper and ink and celluloid.

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  Real, Blood, Ink

  Lewis Mumford (2016). “The Culture of Cities”, p.205, Open Road Media

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• 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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  Order, Mind, Principles

  Lewis Mumford (1979). “My works and days: a personal chronicle”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P

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• The cycle of the machine is now coming to an end. Man has learned much in the hard discipline and the shrewd, unflinching grasp of practical possibilities that the machine has provided in the last three centuries: but we can no more continue to live in the world of the machine than we could live successfully on the barren surface of the moon.

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  Moon, Men, Discipline

  Lewis Mumford (2016). “The Culture of Cities”, p.372, Open Road Media

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• Faith in the creative process, in the dynamics of emergence, in the values and purposes that transcend past achievements and past forms, is the precondition of all further growth.

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  Past, Achievement, Creative

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• 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.

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  Mom, Baby, People

  LEWIS MUMFORD (1961). “THE CITY IN HISTORY”

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• Neither democracy nor effective representation is possible until each participant in the group...devotes a measurable part of his life to furthering its existence.

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  Democracy, Groups, Citizenship

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• The humanities and science are not in inherent conflict but have become separated in the twentieth century. Now their essential unity must be re-emphasized, so that twentieth-century multiplicity may become twentieth-century unity.

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  Humanity, Unity, Essentials

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