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E. F. Schumacher was an outstanding statistician known for his contributions to economics and sustainable development research. He was born on August 16, 1911, and passed away on September 4, 1977.

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“True art is the intermediary between man's ordinary nature and his higher potentialities.”

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Author:E. F. Schumacher

“...liberation from constraints that operate at the level of ordinary humanity---limits imposed by space and time, by the needs of the body, and by the opaqueness of the computer-like mind. All three examples [Jacob Lorber, Edgar Cayce, and Therese Neumann] illustrates the paradoxical truth that such 'higher powers' cannot be acquired by any kind of attack or conquest conducted by the human personality; only when the striving for 'power' has entirely ceased and been replaced by a certain transcendental longing, often called the love of God, may they, or may they not be 'added unto you.”

“If greed were not the master of modern man, how could it be that the frenzy of economic activity does not abate as higher standards of living are attained, and that it is precisely the richest societies which pursue their economic advantage with the greatest ruthlessness?”

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Author:E. F. Schumacher

“We still have to learn how to live peacefully, not only with our fellow men but also with nature and, above all, with those Higher Powers which have made nature and have made us; for, assuredly, we have not come about by accident and certainly have not made ourselves”

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Book:SMALL IS BEAUTIFUL

Source: SMALL IS BEAUTIFUL

“The modern world tends to be skeptical about everything that makes demands on man's higher faculties. But it is not at all skeptical about skepticism, which demands hardly anything.”

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Author:E. F. Schumacher

About the Author

Born: August 16, 1911
Died: September 4, 1977
Known for: Statistician
Quotes: 98

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