Mechanical instruments, potentially a vehicle of rational human purposes, are scarcely a blessing when they enable the gossip of the village idiot and the deeds of the thug to be broadcast to a million people each day.
What was once called the objective world is a sort of Rorschach ink blot, into which each culture, each system of science and religion, each type of … - Lewis Mumford
What was once called the objective world is a sort of Rorschach ink blot, into which each culture, each system of science and religion, each type of …
- Lewis Mumford
A picture was once a rare sort of symbol, rare enough to call for attentive concentration. Now it is the actual experience that is rare, and the pict… - Lewis Mumford
A picture was once a rare sort of symbol, rare enough to call for attentive concentration. Now it is the actual experience that is rare, and the pict…
The cities and mansions that people dream of are those in which they finally live. - Lewis Mumford
The cities and mansions that people dream of are those in which they finally live.
The city is a fact in nature, like a cave, a run of mackerel or an ant-heap. But it is also a conscious work of art, and it holds within its communal… - Lewis Mumford
The city is a fact in nature, like a cave, a run of mackerel or an ant-heap. But it is also a conscious work of art, and it holds within its communal…
Forget the damned motor car and build the cities for lovers and friends. - Lewis Mumford
Forget the damned motor car and build the cities for lovers and friends.
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. - Lewis Mumford
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.
A society that gives to one class all the opportunities for leisure, and to another all the burdens of work, dooms both classes to spiritual sterilit… - Lewis Mumford
A society that gives to one class all the opportunities for leisure, and to another all the burdens of work, dooms both classes to spiritual sterilit…
Trend is not destiny. - Lewis Mumford
Trend is not destiny.
Architecture is either the prophecy of an unformed society or the tomb of a finished one. - Lewis Mumford
Architecture is either the prophecy of an unformed society or the tomb of a finished one.
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