“This metropolitan world, then, is a world where flesh and blood is less real than paper and ink and celluloid.” WorldRealBloodPaperFleshInkFlesh And BloodMetropolitanCelluloid Book:The Culture of Cities Source: The Culture of Cities
“Before modern man can gain control over the forces that now threaten his very existence, he must resume possession of himself. This sets the chief mission for the city of the future: that of creating a visible regional and civic structure, designed to make man at home with his deeper self and his larger world, attached to images of human nature and love.” MenWorldHumansSelfHomeForceCitiesExistenceModernHuman NatureCreatingGainsAnd LoveStructurePossessionDeeperMissionsChiefsVisibleCivicsResumesModern ManLove And Nature 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
“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” WorldCultureGoalColorTypePersonalityShapesObjectivesScience And ReligionInkRorschach Author:Lewis Mumford
“Henceforward, I shout to the heavens, I shall deliver no more lectures on behalf of good causes: I am the good cause that denies the need for such lectures. Avaunt, importuning world! Back to my cell.” WorldNeedsHeavenCausesDenyCellsBehalfLecturesGood Causes Book:My works and days: a personal chronicle Source: My works and days: a personal chronicle
“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.” MenWorldEndsHardLastsThreeCenturyPossibilityDisciplineMoonMachinesSurfacePracticalsCyclesBarrenComing To An End Book:The Culture of Cities Source: The Culture of Cities
