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Lewis Mumford Quotes
«We have created an industrial order geared to automatism, where feeble-mindedness, native or acquired, is necessary for docile productivity in the factory; and where a pervasive neurosis is the final gift of the meaningless life that issues forth at the other end.»
Author: Lewis Mumford
(Writer)
| Keywords:
automatism, docile, factory, feeble, gear, geared, gearing, gears, industrial, in gear, pervasive, productivity
«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.»
Author: Lewis Mumford
(Writer)
| Keywords:
biological, convert, reproduction, reproductions, social function, symbols
«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.»
«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 personality, reads a meaning only remotely derived from the shape and color of the blot itself»
Author: Lewis Mumford
(Writer)
| About:
Goals,
World
| Keywords:
blot, derived, remotely, Rorschach, science and religion