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“Architecture is either the prophecy of an unformed society or the tomb of a finished one.”

Quote by Lewis Mumford

Book:Findings and keepings: analects for an autobiography

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Findings and keepings: analects for an autobiography

This book is a compilation of thoughtful essays and musings that delve into the essence of personal growth and the human experience. It offers readers a unique perspective on life's complexities and the importance of introspection. more

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Historian and urban planner, known for his influential work on city planning and design, including the seminal work 'The City in History'. more

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“Every work of art is an abstraction from time; it denies the reality of change and decay and death.”

Art Reality Art Is Deny Works Of Art Decay Abstraction

Book:Mumford on Modern Art in the 1930s

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“Safety razors make it hard to grow beards in America: America would be a better place if there were a few bearded, savage, terrible old men.”

Ifs Men Hard Would Be America Grows Terrible Safety Old Man Savages Better Place Beard Razors

Book:My works and days: a personal chronicle

Source: My works and days: a personal chronicle

“By putting business before every other manifestation of life, our mechanical and financial civilization has forgotten the chief business of life: namely, growth, reproduction, development. It pays infinite attention to the incubator-and it forgets the egg!”

Growth Forget Pay Attention Development Civilization Infinite Forgotten Financial Chiefs Manifestation Eggs Reproduction

Book:Findings and keepings: analects for an autobiography

Source: Findings and keepings: analects for an autobiography

“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.”

World Needs Heaven Causes Deny Cells Behalf Lectures Good Causes

Book:My works and days: a personal chronicle

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“The ultimate gift of conscious life is a sense of the mystery that encompasses it.”

Life Is Consciousness Mystery Conscious Ultimate

Author:Lewis Mumford

“Chaos, if it does not harden into a pattern of disorder, may be more fruitful than a regularity too easily accepted and a success too easily achieved.”

Ifs May Doe Chaos Patterns Accepted Disorder Regularity

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“When you're old, you are more certain of who you are, and that may be a good thing or a bad thing.”

May Certain Who You Are Good Things Bad Things Old You

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“Do you want to know what I most regret about my youth? That I didn't dream more boldly and demand of myself more impossible things; for all one does in maturity is to carve in granite or porphyry the soap bubble one blew in youth! Oh to have dreamed harder!”

Knows Want Doe Dream Impossible Youth Regret Demand Harder Maturity Bubbles Soap Impossible Things Granite Soap Bubbles

Book:Findings and keepings: analects for an autobiography

Source: Findings and keepings: analects for an autobiography

“Not sense data or atoms or electrons or packets of energy, but purposes, interests, and meanings, constitute the underlying facts of human experience.”

Humans Facts Purpose Energy Interest Experience Data Atoms Human Experience Electrons

Author:Lewis Mumford

“Happiness, I think, lies on the surface... when one plunges under the surface all the buoyant things disappear, and the farther down one gets the more cold and dark it seems: and the more oppressive space feels.”

Thinking Feels Seems Happiness Lying Dark Space Cold Surface Disappear Plunge

Book:My works and days: a personal chronicle

Source: My works and days: a personal chronicle