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Perhaps we cannot raise the winds. But each of us can put up the sail, so that when the wind comes we can catch it.
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Small is beautiful. A study of economics as if people mattered.
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An entirely new system of thought is needed, a system based on attention to people, and not primarily attention to goods....
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Education can help us only if it produces whole men. The truly educated man is not a man who knows a bit of everything, not even the man who knows all the details of all subjects (if such a thing were possible): the whole man in fact, may have little detailed knowledge of facts and theories, he may treasure the Encyclopædia Britannica because she knows and he needn't, but he will be truly in touch with the centre. He will not be in doubt about his basic convictions, about his view on the meaning and purpose of his life. He may not be able to explain these matters in words, but the conduct of his life will show a certain sureness of touch which stems from this inner clarity.
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To organize work in such a manner that it becomes meaningless, boring, stultifying, or nerve-racking for the worker would be little short of criminal; it would indicate a greater concern with goods than with people, an evil lack of compassion and a soul-destroying degree of attachment to the most primitive side of this worldly existence.
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Economic policies absorb almost the entire attention of government, and at the same time become ever more impotent. The simplest things, which only fifty years ago one could do without difficulty, cannot get done any more. The richer a society, the more impossible it become to do worthwhile things without immediate payoff.
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Wisdom demands a new orientation of science and technology toward the organic, the gentle, the elegant and beautiful.
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The disease having been caused by allowing cleverness to displace wisdom, no amount of clever research is likely to produce a cure.
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The modern world tends to be skeptical about everything that makes demands on man's higher faculties. But it is not at all skeptical about skepticism, which demands hardly anything.
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Scientific and technological solutions which poison the environment or degrade the social structure and man himself are of no benefit, no matter how brilliantly conceived or how great their superficial attraction.
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Work and leisure are complementary parts of the same living process and cannot be separated without destroying the joy of work and the bliss of leisure.
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From a Buddhist point of view, this is standing the truth on its head by considering goods as more important than people and consumption as more important than creative activity. It means shifting the emphasis from the worker to the product of work, that is, from the human to the sub-human, surrender to the forces of evil.
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An ounce of practice is generally worth more than a ton of theory.
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All great works of art are about God in the sense that they show the perplexed human being the path, the way up the mountain.
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There are poor societies which have too little; but where is the rich society that says: 'Halt! We have enough'? There is none.
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Man's needs are infinite, and infinitude can be achieved only in the spiritual realm, never in the material.
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It is of little use trying to suppress terrorism if the production of deadly devices continues to be deemed a legitimate employment of man's creative powers.
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Everything can be seen directly except the eye through which we see.
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E. F. Schumacher
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Born:
August 19, 1911
Died:
August 19, 1977
(aged 66)
Bio:
Ernst Friedrich "Fritz" Schumacher was an internationally influential economic thinker, statistician and economist in Britain, serving as Chief Economic Advisor to the UK National Coal Board for two decades.
Known for:
Small Is Beautiful (1973)
A Guide for the Perplexed (1977)
This I Believe: And Other Essays
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