Lewis Mumford Quotes:
Ocupation: Historian
Life: October 19, 1895 - January 26, 1990
Birthday: October 19
Death: January 26
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.
source: "The Conduct Of Life" by Lewis Mumford, Ch. 1, 1951.
topic: Meaningful, Spiritual, Revenge, Nourishment, Spiritual Nourishment, Devious, Vicarious
