The printing press is either the greatest blessing or the greatest curse of modern times, sometimes one forgets which it is.

Wisdom demands a new orientation of science and technology toward the organic, the gentle, the elegant and beautiful.

Economic development is something much wider and deeper than economics, let alone econometrics. Its roots lie outside the economic sphere, in education, organisation, discipline and, beyond that, in political independence and a national consciousness of self-reliance.

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.

There can be nothing sacred in something that has a price.

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.

Our task is to look at the world, and see it whole.