Development does not start with goods; it starts with people and their education, organization, and discipline. Without these three, all resources remain latent, untapped, potential. E. F. Schumacher More Quotes by E. F. Schumacher More Quotes From E. F. Schumacher By means of trees, wildlife could be conserved, pollution decreased, and the beauty of our landscapes enhanced. This is the way, or at least one of the ways, to spiritual, moral, and cultural regeneration. E. F. Schumacher spiritual tree mean 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. E. F. Schumacher explanation sacred Our faith gives us knowledge of something better. E. F. Schumacher soulmate faith knowledge ...liberation from constraints that operate at the level of ordinary humanity---limits imposed by space and time, by the needs of the body, and by the opaqueness of the computer-like mind. All three examples [Jacob Lorber, Edgar Cayce, and Therese Neumann] illustrates the paradoxical truth that such 'higher powers' cannot be acquired by any kind of attack or conquest conducted by the human personality; only when the striving for 'power' has entirely ceased and been replaced by a certain transcendental longing, often called the love of God, may they, or may they not be 'added unto you. E. F. Schumacher space personality humanity To describe an animal as a physico-chemical system of extreme complexityis no doubt perfectly correct, except that it misses out on the animalness of the animal. E. F. Schumacher doubt missing animal No degree of prosperity could justify E. F. Schumacher spiritual men mean 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. E. F. Schumacher environmental generations earth The way in which we experience and interpret the world obviously depends very much indeed on the kind of ideas that fill our minds. If they are mainly small, weak, superficial, and incoherent, life will appear insipid , uninteresting, petty and chaotic. E. F. Schumacher giving lying ideas The art of living is always to make a good thing out of a bad thing. E. F. Schumacher inspire life art If I limit myself to knowledge that I consider true beyond doubt, I minimize the risk of error but I maximize, at the same time, the risk of missing out on what may be the subtlest, most important and most rewarding things in life. E. F. Schumacher things-in-life errors missing Many of them had a better time than they ever had in their lives because they were discovering the new freedom - the less you need, the freer you become. E. F. Schumacher simple-living simple needs 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. E. F. Schumacher demand men world 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. E. F. Schumacher funny-work income might Not mass production but production by the masses. E. F. Schumacher mass-production mass productions Modern man talks of a battle with nature, forgetting that, if he won the battle, he would find himself on the losing side E. F. Schumacher battle nature men I'm not at all contemptuous of comforts, but they have their place and it is not first. E. F. Schumacher contemptuous comfort firsts 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. E. F. Schumacher aids intellectual giving Modern economic thinking...is peculiarly unable to consider the long term and to appreciate man's dependence on the natural world. E. F. Schumacher men long thinking 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. E. F. Schumacher worthwhile-things government years 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. E. F. Schumacher buddhist views mean
