Traditionalists are pessimists about the future and optimists about the past.
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Nothing is unthinkable, nothing impossible to the balanced person, provided it comes out of the needs of life and is dedicated to life's further development.Lewis Mumford
The cities and mansions that people dream of are those in which they finally live.
Lewis Mumford
The artist does not illustrate science (but) he frequently responds to the same interests that a scientist does.
Lewis Mumford
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
Life is the only art that we are required to practice without preparation, and without being allowed the preliminary trials, the failures and botches, that are essential for training.
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For most Americans, progress means accepting what is new because it is new, and discarding what is old because it is old.
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