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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.
Lewis Mumford
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Lewis Mumford
Age: 94 †
Born: 1895
Born: October 19
Died: 1990
Died: January 26
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Utopias rest on the fallacy that perfection is a legitimate goal of human existence.
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The convenience of timekeeping is greatly overrated and the people who practice it so faithfully that they lose the capacity for appreciating the fixed and the static and the spatially related experiences cut themselves off from a good part of reality.
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When art seems to be empty of meaning, as no doubt some of the abstract painting of our own day actually does seem, what the painting says, indeed what the artist is shrieking at the top of his voice, is that life has become empty of all rational content and coherence, and that, in times like these, is far from a meaningless statement.
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War is both the product of an earlier corruption, and a producer of new corruptions.
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If there are favourable habitats and favorable forms of association for animalsand plants, as ecology demonstrates, why not for men? If each particular natural environment has has its own balance is there not perhaps an equivalent of this in culture?
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Every generation revolts against its fathers and makes friends with its grandfathers.
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Today, the notion of progress in a single line without goal or limit seems perhaps the most parochial notion of a very parochial century.
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Idealism and science continue to function in separate compartments and yet 'the happiness of man on earth' depends upon their combination.
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A certain amount of opposition is a great help to a man. Kites rise against, not with, the wind.
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The cities and mansions that people dream of are those in which they finally live.
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Every transformation of humanity has rested upon deep stirrings and intuitions, whose rationalized expression takes the form of a new picture of the cosmos and the nature of the human.
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The timelessness of art is its capacity to represent the transformation of endless becoming into being.
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The self holds both a hell and a heaven.
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