“There are three things healthy people most need to do - to be creatively productive, to render service, and to act in accordance with their moral impulses. In all three respects modern society frustrates most people most of the time.” PeopleNeedsThreeMoralModernHealthyImpulseProductiveThree ThingsModern Society 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of attack or conquest conducted by the human personality; only when the striving for 'power' has entirely ceased and been replaced by a certain transcendental longing, often called the love of God, may they, or may they not be 'added unto you.” NeedsMindHumansKindMayBodyCertainHumanityThreeSpaceLevelsExamplePersonalityHigherLimitsComputerOrdinaryLongingStriveLiberationGod LoveReplacedConquestTime And SpaceConstraintsTranscendentalParadoxicalJacobHigher PowerHuman Personality Author:E. F. Schumacher
“Every increase of needs tends to increase one's independence on outside forces over which one cannont have control and therefore increases existential fear” NeedsForceIncreaseIndependenceExistential Author:E. F. Schumacher
“The generosity of the Earth allows us to feed all mankind; we know enough about ecology to keep the Earth a healthy place; there is enough room on the Earth, and there are enough materials, so that everybody can have adequate shelter; we are quite competent enough to produce sufficient supplies of necessities so that no one need live in misery.” KnowsNeedsEnoughEarthRoomsMankindProduceMaterialsHealthyMiseryGenerositySufficientShelterEcologyAdequateCompetentSupplies Author:E. F. Schumacher
“The way in which we experience and interpret the world obviously depends very much indeed on the kind of ideas that fill our minds. If they are mainly small, weak, superficial, and incoherent, life will appear insipid , uninteresting, petty and chaotic.” IfsWorldWayNeedsGivingMindKindMayIdeasFeelingsBigsSeemsPoliticalLyingPurposeDifficultExistenceDangerDependsBearsWeakFilledNotionFantasticOur TimeEmptinessSuperficialEmphasisPettyVacuumsChaoticInsipid Author:E. F. Schumacher
“You can either read something many times in order to be assured that you got it all, or else you can define your purpose and use techniques which will assure that you have met it and gotten what you need” NeedsBookUsePurposeOrderReadingMetsTechniqueAssured Author:E. F. Schumacher
“Many of them had a better time than they ever had in their lives because they were discovering the new freedom - the less you need, the freer you become.” NeedsSimpleDiscoveringSimple Living Author:E. F. Schumacher
“Man's needs are infinite, and infinitude can be achieved only in the spiritual realm, never in the material.” MenNeedsSpiritualPeaceMaterialsInfiniteRealmsSmall Is Beautiful Book:SMALL IS BEAUTIFUL Source: SMALL IS BEAUTIFUL
“I have no doubt that it is possible to give a new direction to technological development, a direction that shall lead it back to the real needs of man, and that also means: to the actual size of man. Man is small, and, therefore, small is beautiful.” MenNeedsGivingMeanRealBeautifulDoubtDevelopmentSizeNo DoubtTechnologicalNew DirectionsSmall Is BeautifulTechnological Development Author:E. F. Schumacher
