There is no economic problem and, in a sense, there never has been.

Any intelligent fool can invent further complications, but it takes a genius to retain, or recapture, simplicity.

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.

Work and leisure are complementary parts of the same living process and cannot be separated without destroying the joy of work and the bliss of leisure.

It has been universally recognized, in all authentic teachings of mankind, that every being born into this world has to work, not merely to keep himself alive, but to strive towards perfection.

From the point of view of the employer, it is in any case simply an item of cost, to be reduced to a minimum if it cannot be eliminated altogether, say, by automation. From the point of view of the workman, it is a "disutility"; to work is to make a sacrifice of one's leisure and comfort, and wages are a kind of compensation for the sacrifice.

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