Lewis Mumford Quotes About Giving

Quotes about: Giving

• The fact that order and creativity are complementary has been basic to man's cultural development; for he has to internalize order to be able to give external form to his creativity.

  Lewis Mumford

  Creativity, Men, Order

  Lewis Mumford (1967). “The Myth of the Machine: Technics and human development”, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich

• 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.

  Lewis Mumford

  Wisdom, Men, Civilization

  "Faith for Living". Book by Lewis Mumford, 1940.

• A society that gives to one class all the opportunities for leisure, and to another all the burdens of work, dooms both classes to spiritual sterility.

  Lewis Mumford

  Spiritual, Opportunity, Class

  "Faith for Living". Book by Lewis Mumford, 1940.

• Adventure is humdrum and routine unless one assimilates it, unless one relates it to a central core which grows within and gives it contour and significance. Raw experience is empty, just as empty as the forecastle of a whaler as in a chamber of a counting house; for it is not what one does, but in a manifold sense, what one realizes that keeps existence from being vain and trivial.

  Lewis Mumford

  Adventure, Giving, House

• 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.

  Lewis Mumford

  Expression, Organization, Giving

  "Values for Survival". Essay by Lewis Mumford, 1946.

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