Today, the degradation of the inner life is symbolized by the fact that the only place sacred from interruption is the private toilet.
LEWIS MUMFORDTo curb the machine and limit art to handicraft is a denial of opportunity.
More Lewis Mumford Quotes
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To curb the machine and limit art to handicraft is a denial of opportunity.
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The way people in democracies think of the government as something different from themselves is a real handicap. And, of course, sometimes the government confirms their opinion.
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The fact that order and creativity are complementary has been basic to man’s cultural development; for he has to internalize order to be able to give external form to his creativity.
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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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Henceforward, I shout to the heavens, I shall deliver no more lectures on behalf of good causes: I am the good cause that denies the need for such lectures. Avaunt, importuning world! Back to my cell.
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Nothing endures except life: the capacity for birth, growth, and renewal.
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New York is the perfect model of a city, not the model of a perfect city.
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Growth and self-transformation cannot be delegated.
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Safety razors make it hard to grow beards in America: America would be a better place if there were a few bearded, savage, terrible old men.
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Each person is a temporary focus of forces, vitalities, and values that carry back to an immemorial past and that reach forward into an unthinkable future.
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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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The self holds both a hell and a heaven.
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If we never met again in our lives I should feel that somehow the whole adventure of existence was justified by my having met you.
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Humor is our way of defending ourselves from life’s absurdities by thinking absurdly about them.
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In war, the army is not merely a pure consumer, but a negative producer.
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