Lewis Mumford Quotes About Goals

Quotes about: Goals

• Organic planning does not begin with a preconceived goal; it moves from need to need, from opportunity to opportunity, in a series of adaptations that themselves become increasingly coherent and purposeful, so that they generate a complex final design, hardly less unified than a pre-formed geometric pattern.

  Lewis Mumford

  Moving, Opportunity, Goal

  LEWIS MUMFORD (1961). “THE CITY IN HISTORY”

• Unfortunately, once an economy is geared to expansion, the means rapidly turn into an end and "the going becomes the goal." Even more unfortunately, the industries that are favored by such expansion must, to maintain their output, be devoted to goods that are readily consumable either by their nature, or because they are so shoddily fabricated that they must soon be replaced. By fashion and built-in obsolescence the economies of machine production, instead of producing leisure and durable wealth, are duly cancelled out by the mandatory consumption on an even larger scale.

  Lewis Mumford

  Fashion, Mean, Goal

  LEWIS MUMFORD (1961). “THE CITY IN HISTORY”

• Today, the notion of progress in a single line without goal or limit seems perhaps the most parochial notion of a very parochial century.

  Lewis Mumford

  Goal, Progress, Limits

  "Technics and Civilization" by Lewis Mumford, Ch. 8, (sct. 12), 1934.

• 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

  Lewis Mumford

  Color, Goal, Personality

• Utopias rest on the fallacy that perfection is a legitimate goal of human existence.

  Lewis Mumford

  Goal, Perfection, Utopia

  Lewis Mumford (1979). “My works and days: a personal chronicle”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P

• Unfortunately, once an economy is geared to expansion, the means rapidly turn into an end and "the going becomes the goal."

  Lewis Mumford

  Mean, Goal, Expansion

  LEWIS MUMFORD (1961). “THE CITY IN HISTORY”

• The final goal of human effort is man's self-transforma tion.

  Lewis Mumford

  Men, Self, Goal

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