E. F. Schumacher Short Quotes

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Small is beautiful. A study of economics as if people mattered.

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The substance of man cannot be measured by Gross National Product.

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An ounce of practice is generally worth more than a ton of theory.

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There is no economic problem and, in a sense, there never has been.

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The art of living is always to make a good thing out of a bad thing.

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Everything can be seen directly except the eye through which we see.

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The fundamental task is to achieve smallness within large organisation.

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If, however, economic ambitions are good servants, they are bad masters

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Infinite growth of material consumption in a finite world is an impossibility.

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True art is the intermediary between man's ordinary nature and his higher potentialities.

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No one is really working for peace unless he is working primarily for the restoration of wisdom.

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Real life consists of the tensions produced by the incompatibility of opposites, each of which is needed

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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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Study how a society uses its land, and you can come to pretty reliable conclusions as to what its future will be.

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The greatest deprivation anyone can suffer is to have no chance of looking after himself and making a livelihood.

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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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It was not the power of the Spaniards that destroyed the Aztec Empire but the disbelief of the Aztecs in themselves.

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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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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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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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Our task - and the task of all education - is to understand the present world, the world in which we live and make our choices.

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The system of nature, of which man is a part, tends to be self-balancing, self-adjusting, self-cleansing. Not so with technology.

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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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Anything that we can destroy, but are unable to make is, in a sense, sacred, and all our 'explanations' of it do not explain anything.

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Without... the creative imagination rushing in where bureaucratic angels fear to tread - without this, life is a mockery and a disgrace.

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The best aid to give is intellectual aid, a gift of useful knowledge. A gift of knowledge is infinitely preferable to a gift of material things.

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Much of the economic decay of southeast Asia (as of many other parts of the world) is undoubtedly due to a heedless and shameful neglect of trees.

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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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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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