Almost every organization... exhibits two faces a smiling face which it turns toward its members and a frowning face which it turns to the world outside.

There is something, however humble, which can properly be called skill among those who recognise themselves as economists.

The illusion that consumption - and its correlative, income - is desirable probably stems from too great preoccupation with what Knight calls "one-use goods," such as food and fuel, where the utilization and consumption of the good are tightly bound together in a single act or event. ... any economy in the consumption of fuel that enables us to maintain warmth or to generate power with lessened consumption again leaves us better off. ... there is no great value in consumption itself.

Integrative power [is] the ultimate power

In any evolutionary process, even in the arts, the search for novelty becomes corrupting.

Humble, honest, ignorance is one of the finest flowers of the human spirit

The social system tends to be dominated by images... especially of the future, which act cybernetically, constantly guided by perceived divergences between the real and the ideal.