37 ordspråk av Lewis Mumford
Lewis Mumford
Lewis Mumford föddes den 19 oktober 1895 och dog den 26 januar 1990 - US historian
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 Traditionalists are pessimists about the future and optimists about the past |
| Restore human legs as a means of travel. Pedestrians rely on food for fuel and need no special parking facilities. |
| One of the functions of intelligence is to take account of the dangers that come from trusting solely to the intelligence |
| A day spent without the sight or sound of beauty, the contemplation of mystery, or the search of truth or perfection is a poverty-stricken day; and a succession of such days is fatal to human life. |
| New York is the perfect model of a city, not the model of a perfect city. |
| The chief function of the city is to convert power into form, energy into culture, dead matter into the living symbols of art, biological reproduction into social creativity. |
| 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. |
| The artist does not illustrate science (but) he frequently responds to the same interests that a scientist does |
| Forget the damned motor car and build the cities for lovers and friends. |
| By his very success in inventing labor-saving devices modern man has manufactured an abyss of boredom that only the privileged classes in earlier civilizations have ever fathomed |
| The earth is the Lord's fullness thereof: this is no longer a hollow dictum of religion, but a directive for economic action toward human brotherhood |
| 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. |
| 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 training. |
| Every generation revolts against its fathers and makes friends with its grandfathers |
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