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

The real problems of our planet are not economic or technical, they are philosophical. The philosophy of unbridled materialism is being challenged by events.

I think I should not go far wrong if I asserted that the amount of genuine leisure available in a society is generally in inverse proportion to the amount of labor-saving machinery it employs.

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.

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

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.