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.
LEWIS MUMFORDArchitecture is either the prophecy of an unformed society or the tomb of a finished one.
More Lewis Mumford Quotes
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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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Our national flower is the concrete cloverleaf.
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Architecture is either the prophecy of an unformed society or the tomb of a finished one.
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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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Humor is our way of defending ourselves from life’s absurdities by thinking absurdly about them.
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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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New York is the perfect model of a city, not the model of a perfect city.
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Life 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 the training…
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Every work of art is an abstraction from time; it denies the reality of change and decay and death.
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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 chief enemy of peace is the spirit of unreason itself: an inability to conceive alternatives, an unwillingness to reconsider old prejudices, to part with ideological obsessions, to entertain new ideas or to improve new plans.
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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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To curb the machine and limit art to handicraft is a denial of opportunity.
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The self holds both a hell and a heaven.
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In war, the army is not merely a pure consumer, but a negative producer.
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