Quotes by Mumford, Lewis

Today, the notion of progress in a single line without goal or limit s >>

The cycle of the machine is now coming to an end. Man has learned much >>

Traditionalists are pessimists about the future and optimists about th >>

Quotations about Modern and Modernism

In the society of men the truth resides now less in what things are th >>

There is something terribly wrong with a culture inebriated by noise a >>

It cannot be denied that for a society which has to create scarcity to >>

Unable to create a meaningful life for itself, the personality takes its own revenge: from the lower depths comes a regressive form of spontaneity: raw animality forms a counterpoise to the meaningless stimuli and the vicarious life to which the ordinary man is conditioned. Getting spiritual nourishment from this chaos of events, sensations, and devious interpretations is the equivalent of trying to pick through a garbage pile for food.

Mumford, Lewis