Lewis Mumford Quotes About Values

Quotes about: Values

• Modern Man is the victim of the very instruments he values most. Every gain in power, every mastery of natural forces, every scientific addition to knowledge, has proved potentially dangerous, because it has not been accompanied by equal gains in self-understanding and self-discipline.

  Lewis Mumford

  Men, Self, Discipline

• Virtue is not a chemical product...it is a historic product, like language and literature; and this means that if we cease to care about it, cease to cultivate it, cease to transmit its funded values, a large part of it will become meaningless, like a dead language to which we have lost the key.

  Lewis Mumford

  Mean, Keys, Literature

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

• 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.

• It has not been for nothing that the word has remained man's principal toy and tool: without the meanings and values it sustains, all man's other tools would be worthless.

  Lewis Mumford

  Writing, Men, Toys

• Faith in the creative process, in the dynamics of emergence, in the values and purposes that transcend past achievements and past forms, is the precondition of all further growth.

  Lewis Mumford

  Past, Achievement, Creative

• 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.

  Lewis Mumford

  Sight, Two, Personality

• As for the various kinds of montage photography, they are in reality not photography at all but a kind of painting in which photography is used - as pastiches of textiles are used in crazy-quilts - to form a mosaic. Whatever value the montage may have derives from painting rather than the camera.

  Lewis Mumford

  Photography, Quilts, Crazy

• Each person is a temporary focus of forces, vitalities, and values that carry back to an immemorial past and that reach forward into an unthinkable future.

  Lewis Mumford

  Past, Thought Provoking, Focus

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

• Genuine [economic] value lies in the power to sustain or enrich life

  Lewis Mumford

  Lying, Economic Value, Genuine

  Lewis Mumford, Langdon Winner (2010). “Technics and Civilization”, p.76, University of Chicago Press

• 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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