Wisdom demands a new orientation of science and technology toward the organic, the gentle, the elegant and beautiful.
E. F. SchumacherEconomic 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.
E. F. SchumacherI started by saying that one of the most fateful errors of our age is the belief that the problem of production has been solved. This illusion, I suggested, is mainly due to our inability to recognize that the modern industrial system, with all its intellectual sophistication, consumes the very basis on which is has been erected. To use the language of the economist, it lives on irreplaceable capital which it cheerfully treats as income.
E. F. SchumacherTrue art is the intermediary between man's ordinary nature and his higher potentialities.
E. F. Schumacher