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Ernst F. Schumacher - From the Attitude category:
Eagles come in all shapes and sizes, but you will recognize them chiefly by their attitudes. (Ernst F. Schumacher)
Ernst F. Schumacher - From the Belief category:
Our ordinary mind always tries to persuade us that we are nothing but acorns and that our greatest happiness will be to become bigger, fatter, shinier acorns; but that is of interest only to pigs. Our faith gives us knowledge of something better: that we can become oak trees. (Ernst F. Schumacher)
Ernst F. Schumacher - From the Ego category:
Many people love in themselves what they hate in others. (Ernst F. Schumacher)
Ernst F. Schumacher - From the Environment category:
Infinite growth of material consumption in a finite world is an impossibility. (Ernst F. Schumacher)
Ernst F. Schumacher - From the Knowledge category:
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... (Ernst F. Schumacher)
Ernst F. Schumacher - From the Potential category:
True art is the intermediary between man's ordinary nature and his higher potentialities. (Ernst F. Schumacher)
Ernst F. Schumacher - From the Shock category:
-Small is beautiful, 1973
Call a thing immoral or ugly, soul-destroying or a degradation of man, a peril to the peace of the world or to the well-being of future generations; as long as you have not shown it to be ''uneconomic'' you have not really questioned its right to exist, grow, and prosper. (Ernst F. Schumacher)
Ernst F. Schumacher - From the Technology category:
The system of nature, of which man is a part, tends to be self-balancing, self-adjusting, self-cleansing. Not so with technology. (Ernst F. Schumacher)
Ernst F. Schumacher - From the Theory category:
It is amazing how much theory we can do without when work actually begins. (Ernst F. Schumacher)
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