F. Schumacher
F. Schumacher
order purpose use
You can either read something many times in order to be assured that you got it all, or else you can define your purpose and use techniques which will assure that you have met it and gotten what you need
giving intellectual aids
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.
firsts comfort contemptuous
I'm not at all contemptuous of comforts, but they have their place and it is not first.
generations earth way
A way of life that ever more rapidly depletes the power of the Earth to sustain it and piles up ever more insoluble problems for each succeeding generation can only be called violent.
nature men battle
Modern man talks of a battle with nature, forgetting that, if he won the battle, he would find himself on the losing side
sacred explanation
Anything that we can destroy but are unable to make is, in a sense sacred, and all our 'explanations' of it do not really explain anything.
soulmate knowledge giving
Our faith gives us knowledge of something better.
funny-work might income
It might be said that it is the ideal of the employer to have production without employees and the ideal of the employee is to have income without work.
attitude greatness eagles
Eagles come in all shapes and sizes, but you will recognize them chiefly by their attitudes.
wind sail ready
I cannot predict the wind but I can have my sail ready.
life attitude doe
An attitude to life which seeks fulfillment in the single-minded pursuit of wealth - in short, materialism - does not fit into this world, because it contains within itself no limiting principle, while the environment in which it is placed is strictly limited.
littles rich enough
There are poor societies which have too little; but where is the rich society that says: 'Halt! We have enough'? There is none.
looks world tasks
Our task is to look at the world, and see it whole.
errors intellectual environmental
I started by saying that one of the most fateful errors of our age is the belief that the problem of production has been solved. This illusion, I suggested, is mainly due to our inability to recognize that the modern industrial system, with all its intellectual sophistication, consumes the very basis on which is has been erected. To use the language of the economist, it lives on irreplaceable capital which it cheerfully treats as income.