“Genuine [economic] value lies in the power to sustain or enrich life” LyingValuesEconomicGenuineEconomic Value Book:Technics and Civilization Source: Technics and Civilization
“We must give as much weight to the arousal of the emotions and to the expression of moral and esthetic values as we now give to science, to invention, to practical organization. One without the other is impotent.” GivingValuesEmotionMoralExpressionOrganizationWeightPracticalsInventionAestheticArousal Author:Lewis Mumford
“Virtue is not a chemical product...it is a historic product, like language and literature; and this means that if we cease to care about it, cease to cultivate it, cease to transmit its funded values, a large part of it will become meaningless, like a dead language to which we have lost the key.” IfsMeanCareValuesLiteratureLostLanguageVirtueProductsKeysMoralityCeaseChemicalsMeaninglessHistoricTransmit Author:Lewis Mumford
“Man's Chief purpose is the creation and preservation of values; that is what gives meaning to our civilization, and the participation in this is what gives significance, ultimately, to the individual human life.” MenGivingHumansWisdomPurposeValuesPoliticsIndividualEconomyCreationCivilizationChiefsHuman LifeLiberalismSignificanceParticipationPreservation Author:Lewis Mumford
“Faith in the creative process, in the dynamics of emergence, in the values and purposes that transcend past achievements and past forms, is the precondition of all further growth.” PastFormPurposeValuesProcessGrowthCreativeAchievementCreative ProcessEmergenceDynamics Author:Lewis Mumford
“It was Stieglitz's endeavor... to translate the unseen world of tactile values as they develop between lovers not merely into the sexual act but the entire relation of two personalities - to translate this world of blind touch into sight.” WorldTwoValuesThis WorldPersonalityLoversSightRelationBlindEndeavorTranslateUnseenTactileTwo Personalities Author:Lewis Mumford
“As for the various kinds of montage photography, they are in reality not photography at all but a kind of painting in which photography is used - as pastiches of textiles are used in crazy-quilts - to form a mosaic. Whatever value the montage may have derives from painting rather than the camera.” KindMayRealityFormUsedValuesCrazyPaintingPhotographyCamerasVariousMosaicsQuiltsTextilesPastiche Author:Lewis Mumford
“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.” MenWritingWould BeValuesToolsToysPrincipalWorthless Author:Lewis Mumford
“Modern Man is the victim of the very instruments he values most. Every gain in power, every mastery of natural forces, every scientific addition to knowledge, has proved potentially dangerous, because it has not been accompanied by equal gains in self-understanding and self-discipline.” MenSelfValuesForceUnderstandingNaturalModernDangerousDisciplineEqualGainsVictimInstrumentsMasterySelf DisciplineModern ManSelf Understanding Author:Lewis Mumford
“Each person is a temporary focus of forces, vitalities, and values that carry back to an immemorial past and that reach forward into an unthinkable future.” PersonsPastValuesForceFocusThought ProvokingTemporaryProvokingVitalityUnthinkable Author:Lewis Mumford
