The last step in parental love involves the release of the beloved; the willing cutting of the cord that would otherwise keep the child in a state of emotional dependence.
LEWIS MUMFORDFor most Americans, progress means accepting what is new because it is new, and discarding what is old because it is old.
More Lewis Mumford Quotes
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Growth and self-transformation cannot be delegated.
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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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Our national flower is the concrete cloverleaf.
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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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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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The self holds both a hell and a heaven.
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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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New York is the perfect model of a city, not the model of a perfect city.
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To curb the machine and limit art to handicraft is a denial of opportunity.
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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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For most Americans, progress means accepting what is new because it is new, and discarding what is old because it is old.
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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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Architecture is either the prophecy of an unformed society or the tomb of a finished one.
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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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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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