The clock, not the steam-engine, is the key-machine of the modern industrial age.
~ Lewis Mumford
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Category Archives: 1947 – Quote, Unquote
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A leader is best when people barely know that he exists, not so good when people obey and acclaim him, worst when they despise him.
~ Lao Zi
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Communists are people who fancied that they had an unhappy childhood.
~ Gertrude Stein
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I’m a pessimist about probabilities, I’m an optimist about possibilities.
~ Lewis Mumford
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Knowing others is intelligence, knowing yourself is true wisdom.
~ Lao Zi
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A writer must always try to have a philosophy and he should also have a psychology and a philology and many other things. Without a philosophy and a psychology and all these various other things he is not really worthy of being called a writer. I agree with Kant and Schopenhauer and Plato and Spinoza and that is quite enough to be called a philosophy. But then of course a philosophy is not the same thing as a style.
~ Gertrude Stein
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Every generation revolts against its fathers and makes friends with its grandfathers.
~ Lewis Mumford
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The more laws and order are made prominent, the more thieves and robbers there will be.
~ Lao Zi
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A great deal of beauty is rapture. A circle is a necessity. Otherwise you would see no one. We each have our circle.
~ Gertrude Stein
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Modern industrial design is based on the principle of conspicuous economy, but the bourgeois culture which dominates the Western World is founded on the principle of conspicuous waste.
~ Lewis Mumford
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