Lewis Mumford Quotes

I'm not full of virtues and noble qualities. I love, but I love strongly, exclusive, stedfasty.

An essential quality of beauty is aloofness.

There is no rapture in the love which is prompted by esteem; such affection is lasting, not passionate.

Female cats are very Lascivious, and make advances to the male.

Every animal on the planet attracts mates with the goal of reproduction. Frogs swell their bodies. Male gorillas beat their chests. Have you ever watched a male lobster rise up on the tips of his legs and snap his claws, demanding female attention? Attraction is the first element of all animal reproduction, humans included

Raccoons don't need to do poppers in order to come while they're having anonymous same-sex interludes in a highway rest area.

Unless one becomes a womb one never becomes pregnant with god. One cannot conquer god, one can't be aggressive - that is the sure way to fail. One can only surrender and allow god to happen. That's what the quality of being feminine really is. That is the essential core of meditation.

The only things that separates us from the brute, with which we have so much in common, is the capacity to distinguish between right and wrong.

A person who is obsessed is characterized by committed, settled, passionate love for God, above and before every other thing and every other being.

Seek the insignificant small but essential qualities, essential to life

I tried to express through red and green the terrible passions of humanity.

Music is an essential part of everything we do. Like puppetry, music has an abstract quality which speaks to a worldwide audience in a wonderful way that nourishes the soul.

Passion's a good, stupid horse that will pull the plough six days a week if you give him the run of his heels on Sundays. But love's a nervous, awkward, over-mastering brute; if you can't rein him, it's best to have no truck with him.

A good woman is one who loves passionately, has guts, seriousness and passionate convictions, takes responsibility, and shapes society.

The problem is almost everybody is just recording the world with home photographic toys, not doing metaphor or ideas. We have a photographic culture that's not conditioned to think in terms of symbol.

Sometimes when you work in advertising you'll get a product that's really garbage and you have to make it seem fantastic, something that is essential to the continued quality of life.

In love we do not think of moral qualities, and scarcely of intellectual ones. Temperament and manner alone, with beauty, excite love.

Freshness is essential. That makes all the difference.

Love is at once more animal than friendship and more divine.

If you have not learned to be a passionate lover, do not count your life as lived. On the day of reckoning, it will not be counted.

The modesty of women, which, in its most primitive form among animals, is based on sexual periodicity, is, with that periodicity, an essential condition of courtship.

There are four qualities essential to a great jazzman. they are taste, courage, individuality, and irreverence.

Shame and guilt are noble emotions essential in the maintenance of civilized society, and vital for the development of some of the most refined and elegant qualities of human potential.

I often get myself in love trouble because I'm so passionate; I love so much and so deep.

If you are going to have less things, they have to be great things.