Real life consists of the tensions produced by the incompatibility of opposites, each of which is needed

No one is really working for peace unless he is working primarily for the restoration of wisdom.

An entirely new system of thought is needed, a system based on attention to people, and not primarily attention to goods. . . .

There is incredible generosity in the potentialities of Nature. We only have to discover how to utilize them.

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.

To organize work in such a manner that it becomes meaningless, boring, stultifying, or nerve-racking for the worker would be little short of criminal; it would indicate a greater concern with goods than with people, an evil lack of compassion and a soul-destroying degree of attachment to the most primitive side of this worldly existence.

Even bigger machines, entailing even bigger concentrations of economic power and exerting ever greater violence against the environment, do not represent progress: they are a denial of wisdom. Wisdom demands a new orientation of science and technology towards the organic, the gentle, the nonviolent, the elegant and beautiful.