What did Lewis Mumford mean by: A certain amount of opposition is a great help to a man. Kites rise against, not with, the wind. - Lewis Mumford Historian · USA Copy
+ The cities and mansions that people dream of are those in which they finally live. Feraz Zeid, January 13, 2024January 13, 2024, Lewis Mumford, Dream, 0 - Lewis Mumford Historian · USA
+ War is a specific product of civilization. Feraz Zeid, June 20, 2023December 12, 2023, Lewis Mumford, Civilization, Products, War, 0 - Lewis Mumford Historian · USA
+ Growth and self-transformation cannot be delegated. Feraz Zeid, September 24, 2023December 26, 2023, Lewis Mumford, Growth, Self, Transformation, 0 - Lewis Mumford Historian · USA
+ Only when love takes the lead will the earth, and life on earth, be safe again. And not until then. Feraz Zeid, January 14, 2024January 14, 2024, Lewis Mumford, Earth, Safe, 0 - Lewis Mumford Historian · USA
+ Don’t take the will for the deed; get the deed. Feraz Zeid, June 26, 2023December 12, 2023, Lewis Mumford, Advice, Ambitious, Deeds, 0 - Lewis Mumford Historian · USA
+ To curb the machine and limit art to handicraft is a denial of opportunity. Feraz Zeid, January 13, 2024January 13, 2024, Lewis Mumford, Art, Machines, Opportunity, 0 - Lewis Mumford Historian · USA
+ Every work of art is an abstraction from time; it denies the reality of change and decay and death. Feraz Zeid, January 13, 2024January 13, 2024, Lewis Mumford, Art, Decay, Reality, 0 - Lewis Mumford Historian · USA
+ Utopias rest on the fallacy that perfection is a legitimate goal of human existence. Feraz Zeid, January 14, 2024January 14, 2024, Lewis Mumford, Goal, Perfection, Utopia, 0 - Lewis Mumford Historian · USA
Every time an artist dies, part of the vision of mankind passes with him. - Franklin D. Roosevelt 32nd U.S. President · USA
Live dangerously. Build your cities on the slopes of Vesuvius. Explain - Friedrich Nietzsche Philosopher · Germany
Our destiny is frequently met in the very paths we take to avoid it. - Jean de La Fontaine Poet · France
The longer you look at an object, the more abstract it becomes, and, ironically, the more real. - Lucian Freud Painter · Germany
Courage consists not in blindly overlooking danger, but in seeing it, and conquering it. - Jean Paul Writer · Germany
Never regret. If it’s good, it’s wonderful. If it’s bad, it’s experience. - Jean Plaidy Author · England
Happiness: a good bank account, a good cook, and a good digestion. Explain - Jean-Jacques Rousseau Philosopher · Switzerland
Sometimes leadership is planting trees under whose shade you’ll never sit. - Jennifer Granholm Politician · USA
