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..

Man's needs are infinite, and infinitude can be achieved only in the spiritual realm, never in the material..

An ounce of practice is generally worth more than a ton of theory..

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 imp….

At present, there can be little doubt that the whole of mankind is in mortal danger, not because we are short of scientific and technological know-ho….

The real problems of our planet are not economic or technical, they are philosophical. The philosophy of unbridled materialism is being challenged by….

No one is really working for peace unless he is working primarily for the restoration of wisdom..

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

An entirely new system of thought is needed, a system based on attention to people, and not primarily attention to goods. . . ..

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

I cannot predict the wind but I can have my sail ready..

Even bigger machines, entailing even bigger concentrations of economic power and exerting ever greater violence against the environment, do not repre….

Development does not start with goods; it starts with people and their education, organization, and discipline. Without these three, all resources re….

The purpose of work is to give people a chance to utilize and develop their faculties; to enable them to overcome their ego-centeredness by joining o….

A way of life that ever more rapidly depletes the power of the Earth to sustain it and piles up ever more insoluble problems for each succeeding gene….

Modern man talks of a battle with nature, forgetting that, if he won the battle, he would find himself on the losing side.

We must do what we conceive to be the right thing, and not bother our heads or burden our souls with whether we are going to be successful. Because i….

Man is small, and, therefore, small is beautiful..

It might be said that it is the ideal of the employer to have production without employees and the ideal of the employee is to have income without wo….

Wisdom demands a new orientation of science and technology toward the organic, the gentle, the elegant and beautiful..

Anyone who thinks consumption can expand forever on a finite planet is either insane or an economist..