What did Lewis Mumford mean by: Humor is our way of defending ourselves from life’s absurdities by thinking absurdly about them. - Lewis Mumford Historian · USA Copy
+ Genuine [economic] value lies in the power to sustain or enrich life Feraz Zeid, January 13, 2024January 13, 2024, Lewis Mumford, Genuine, Lying, 0 - Lewis Mumford Historian · USA
+ Nothing endures except life: the capacity for birth, growth, and renewal. Feraz Zeid, January 13, 2024January 13, 2024, Lewis Mumford, Birth, Growth, Immortality, 0 - Lewis Mumford Historian · USA
+ Adding highway lanes to deal with traffic congestion is like loosening your belt to cure obesity. Feraz Zeid, January 13, 2024January 13, 2024, Lewis Mumford, Obesity, Traffic, 0 - Lewis Mumford Historian · USA
+ In war, the army is not merely a pure consumer, but a negative producer. Feraz Zeid, January 13, 2024January 13, 2024, Lewis Mumford, Army, Peace, War, 0 - Lewis Mumford Historian · USA
+ War is both the product of an earlier corruption, and a producer of new corruptions. Feraz Zeid, January 13, 2024January 13, 2024, Lewis Mumford, Corruption, Producers, War, 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
+ The Fujiyama of Architecture?at once a lofty mountain and a national shrine. Feraz Zeid, January 13, 2024January 13, 2024, Lewis Mumford, Architecture, Mountain, Shrines, 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
Fight any instinct to be humorless, for humorlessness is the worst of all absurdities. - Jean Cocteau Artist · France
The Opera is obviously the first draft of a fine spectacle; it suggests the idea of one. Explain - Jean de la Bruyere Writer · France
The court is like a palace of marble; it’s composed of people very hard and very polished. Explain - Jean de la Bruyere Writer · France
The secret of success is sincerity. Once you can fake that, you’ve got it made. - Jean Giraudoux Playwright · France
What a father says to his children is not heard by the world, but it will be heard by posterity. - Jean Paul Writer · Germany
My pessimism extends to the point of even suspecting the sincerity of other pessimists. - Jean Rostand Biologist · France
Plant and your spouse plants with you; weed and you weed alone. Explain - Jean-Jacques Rousseau Philosopher · Switzerland
When a woman gives birth her waters break and she pours out the child and the child runs free. - Jeanette Winterson Author · England
