E F Schumacher - Best Quotes

An attitude to life which seeks fulfillment in the single-minded pursuit of wealth – in short materialism – does not fit into this world because it contains within itself no limiting principle while the environment in which it is placed is strictly limited.

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In my world history comes down to language and art. No one cares much about what battles were fought who won them and who lost them – unless there is a painting a play a song or a poem that speaks of the event.

A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way that everyone believes he has the biggest piece.

Wushu is a move in Chinese a physical move. An attack. Wushu is like an art.

My first love is art and I see a lot of things in an artistic way.

The idea of avant-garde art is a very suspicious thing to me the idea that poetry is new and it keeps being new the way Chevrolets every year are new.

Any work that aspires however humbly to the condition of art should carry its justification in every line.

When thou art at Rome do as they do at Rome.

Rock isn't art it's the way ordinary people talk.

Tell me thy company and I'll tell thee what thou art.

Book-jacket design may become a lost art like album-cover design without which late-20th-century iconography would have been pauperized.

Art is nature speeded up and God slowed down.

Author: E F Schumacher

The system of nature of which man is a part tends to be self-balancing self-adjusting self-cleansing. Not so with technology.

Infinite growth of material consumption in a finite world is an impossibility.

Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex… It takes a touch of genius – and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction.

An attitude to life which seeks fulfillment in the single-minded pursuit of wealth – in short materialism – does not fit into this world because it contains within itself no limiting principle while the environment in which it is placed is strictly limited.