+ Traditionalists are pessimists about the future and optimists about the past. Feraz Zeid, January 13, 2024January 13, 2024, Lewis Mumford, Past, Pessimist, Tradition, 0 - Lewis Mumford Historian · USA
+ 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
+ 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
+ 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
+ I’m a pessimist about probabilities, I’m an optimist about possibilities. Feraz Zeid, January 13, 2024January 13, 2024, Lewis Mumford, Optimism, Pessimist, Possibility, 0 - Lewis Mumford Historian · USA
+ The final goal of human effort is man’s self-transforma tion. Feraz Zeid, January 13, 2024January 13, 2024, Lewis Mumford, Goal, Self, 0 - Lewis Mumford Historian · USA
+ A man of courage never needs weapons, but he may need bail. Feraz Zeid, October 31, 2023December 26, 2023, Lewis Mumford, Courage, 0 - Lewis Mumford Historian · USA
+ 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
Often we find our own destiny on the same roads that we have been avoiding. - Jean de La Fontaine Poet · France
The good, we do it; the evil, that is fortune; man is always right, and destiny always wrong. - Jean de La Fontaine Poet · France
Already at the origin of the species man was equal to what he was destined to become. - Jean Rostand Biologist · France
I knew it like destiny, and at the same time, I knew it as choice. - Jeanette Winterson Author · England
Destiny is a worrying concept. I don’t want to be fated, I want to choose. - Jeanette Winterson Author · England
Globalization was a deep trend pushed by technology and right ideas, as much as anything else. - Jeffrey Sachs Economist · USA
I am the biggest Destiny’s Child – Beyonce, Kelly, Michelle, all of them – fan in the world. - Jennifer Hudson Singer