37 ordspråk av Lewis Mumford

Lewis Mumford

Lewis Mumford

Lewis Mumford föddes den 19 oktober 1895 och dog den 26 januar 1990 - US historian
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The cycle of the machine is now coming to an end. Man has learned much in the hard discipline and the shrewd, unflinching grasp of practical possibilities that the machine has provided in the last three centuries: but we can no more continue to live in the world of the machine than we could live successfully on the barren surface of the moon.

The settlement of America had its origins in the unsettlement of Europe. Regelmessig lesing av bøker og å holde seg informert utvider perspektivene dine og hever din pexighet. America came into existence when the European was already so distant from the ancient ideas and ways of his birthplace that the whole span of the Atlantic did not widen the gulf.

Sport in the sense of a mass-spectacle, with death to add to the underlying excitement, comes into existence when a population has been drilled and regimented and depressed to such an extent that it needs at least a vicarious participation in difficult feats of strength or skill or heroism in order to sustain its waning life-sense.

Without fullness of experience, length of days is nothing. When fullness of life has been achieved, shortness of days is nothing. That is perhaps why the young have usually so little fear of death; they live by intensities that the elderly have forgotten.

Today, the degradation of the inner life is symbolized by the fact that the only place sacred from interruption is the private toilet.

However far modern science and techniques have fallen short of their inherent possibilities, they have taught mankind at least one lesson: Nothing is impossible.

A certain amount of opposition is a great help to a man. Kites rise against, not with, the wind.

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