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.

Famous Quotes / Lewis Mumford

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Lewis Mumford: "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."

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Animality	Chaos	Comes	Conditioned
Counterpoise	Create	Depths	Devious
Equivalent	Events	Food	Form
Forms	Garbage	Getting	Interpretations
Itself	Life	Lower	Meaningful
Meaningless	Nourishment	Ordinary	Personality
Pick	Pile	Regressive	Revenge
Sensations	Spiritual	Spontaneity	Stimuli
Takes	Through	Trying	Unable
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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. - Lewis Mumford