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Not mass production but production by the masses.
Man is small, and, therefore, small is beautiful.
Our faith gives us knowledge of something better.
Our task is to look at the world, and see it whole.
I cannot predict the wind but I can have my sail ready.
Many people love in themselves what they hate in others
Many people love in themselves what they hate in others.
There can be nothing sacred in something that has a price.
An ounce of practice is generally worth more than a ton of theory.
The substance of man cannot be measured by Gross National Product.
There is no economic problem and, in a sense, there never has been.
The art of living is always to make a good thing out of a bad thing.
Everything can be seen directly except the eye through which we see.
The fundamental task is to achieve smallness within large organisation.
If, however, economic ambitions are good servants, they are bad masters
If, however, economic ambitions are good servants, they are bad masters.
It is amazing how much theory we can do without when work actually begins.
Infinite growth of material consumption in a finite world is an impossibility.
I'm not at all contemptuous of comforts, but they have their place and it is not first.
True art is the intermediary between man's ordinary nature and his higher potentialities.
Eagles come in all shapes and sizes, but you will recognize them chiefly by their attitudes.
No one is really working for peace unless he is working primarily for the restoration of wisdom.
We still have to learn how to live peacefully, not only with our fellow men but also with nature.
Anyone who thinks consumption can expand forever on a finite planet is either insane or an economist.
The most striking thing about modern industry is that it requires so much and accomplishes so little.
The richer a society, the more impossible it becomes to do worthwhile things without immediate pay-off.
Real life consists of the tensions produced by the incompatibility of opposites, each of which is needed
Never let an inventor run a company. You can never get him to stop tinkering and bring something to market
Never let an inventor run a company. You can never get him to stop tinkering and bring something to market.
Man's needs are infinite, and infinitude can be achieved only in the spiritual realm, never in the material.
There is incredible generosity in the potentialities of Nature. We only have to discover how to utilize them.
Any intelligent fool can invent further complications, but it takes a genius to retain, or recapture, simplicity.
Study how a society uses its land, and you can come to pretty reliable conclusions as to what its future will be.
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.
Wisdom demands a new orientation of science and technology toward the organic, the gentle, the elegant and beautiful.
Modern man talks of a battle with nature, forgetting that, if he won the battle, he would find himself on the losing side
The printing press is either the greatest blessing or the greatest curse of modern times, sometimes one forgets which it is.
An entirely new system of thought is needed, a system based on attention to people, and not primarily attention to goods. . . .
There are poor societies which have too little; but where is the rich society that says: 'Halt! We have enough'? There is none.
Our task - and the task of all education - is to understand the present world, the world in which we live and make our choices.
We think work with the brain is more worthy than work with the hands. Nobody who thinks with his hands could ever fall for this.
The system of nature, of which man is a part, tends to be self-balancing, self-adjusting, self-cleansing. Not so with technology.
Modern economic thinking...is peculiarly unable to consider the long term and to appreciate man's dependence on the natural world.
The disease having been caused by allowing cleverness to displace wisdom, no amount of clever research is likely to produce a cure.
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.
Without ... the creative imagination rushing in where bureaucratic angels fear to tread - without this, life is a mockery and a disgrace.
Nobody really likes large-scale organizations; nobody likes to take orders from a superior who takes orders from a superior who takes orders.
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.
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.
Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction.