37 ordspråk av Lewis Mumford
Lewis Mumford
Lewis Mumford föddes den October 19th 1895 och dog den 26 January 1990 - US historian
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 A certain amount of opposition is a great help to a man. Kites rise against, not with, the wind. |
| 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. |
| A man of courage never needs weapons, but he may need bail. |
| 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 |
| Don't take the will for the deed; get the deed |
| Every generation revolts against its fathers and makes friends with its grandfathers |
| 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. |
| Forget the damned motor car and build the cities for lovers and friends. |
| However far modern science and techniques have fallen short of their inherent possibilities, they have taught mankind at least one lesson: Nothing is impossible. |
| I would die happy if I knew that on my tombstone could be written these words, "This man was an absolute fool. None of the disastrous things that he reluctantly predicted ever came to pass!" |
| It has not been for nothing that the word has remained man's principal toy and tool: without the meanings and values it sustains, all man's other tools would be worthless. |
| 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. |
| New York is the perfect model of a city, not the model of a perfect city. |
| Nothing is unthinkable, nothing impossible to the balanced person, provided it comes out of the needs of life and is dedicated to life's further development |
| One of the functions of intelligence is to take account of the dangers that come from trusting solely to the intelligence |
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