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Ernst Haeckel, full name Ernst Heinrich Phillip August Haeckel
In the course of individual development, inherited characters appear, in general, earlier than adaptive ones, and the earlier a certain character appears in ontogeny, the further back must lie in time when it was acquired by its ancestors.
E. F. Schumacher, fully Ernst Friedrich "Fritz" Schumacher
If our intellectual leaders treat work as nothing but a necessary evil soon to be abolished as far as the majority is concerned, the urge to minimize it right away is hardly a surprising reaction, and the problem of motivation becomes insoluble.
Envy | Greed | Inevitable | Man | Nothing | Power | Problems |
Che Guevara, fully Ernesto “Che” Guevara
Whenever death may surprise us, let it be welcome if our battle cry has reached even one receptive ear and another hand reaches out to take up our arms.
Heart |
Ernst Haeckel, full name Ernst Heinrich Phillip August Haeckel
We need but mention the mighty influence which irrational dogmas still exercise on the elementary education of our youth, we need but mention that the state yet permits the existence of cloisters and of celibacy, the most immoral and baneful ordinance of the “only-saving” church; we need but mention that the civilized state yet divides the most important parts of the civil year in accordance with church festivals; that in many countries it allows the public order to be disturbed by church processions, and so on.
E. F. Schumacher, fully Ernst Friedrich "Fritz" Schumacher
Development does not start with goods; it starts with people and their education, organization, and discipline. Without these three, all resources remain latent, untapped, potential.
Dignity |
E. F. Schumacher, fully Ernst Friedrich "Fritz" Schumacher
Economic growth, which viewed from the point of view of economics, physics, chemistry, and technology, has no discernible limit must necessary run into decisive bottlenecks when viewed from the point of view of the environmental sciences. 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.
Erwin Schrödinger, fully Erwin Rudolf Josef Alexander Schrödinger
We are, I believe, at the moment in grave danger of missing the 'path to perfection'.
Che Guevara, fully Ernesto “Che” Guevara
Far more important than a good remuneration is the pride of serving one's neighbor.
Ernst Haeckel, full name Ernst Heinrich Phillip August Haeckel
We may now give the following more precise expression to our chief law of biogeny:— The evolution of the foetus (or ontogenesis) is a condensed and abbreviated recapitulation of the evolution of the stem (orphylogenesis); and this recapitulation is the more complete in proportion as the original development (orpalingenesis) is preserved by a constant heredity; on the other hand, it becomes less complete in proportion as a varying adaptation to new conditions increases the disturbing factors in the development (or cenogenesis).
Ernst Haeckel, full name Ernst Heinrich Phillip August Haeckel
Yet it is an astonishing fact that the science of the evolution of man does not even yet form part of the scheme of general education. In fact, educated people even in our day are for the most part quite ignorant of the important truths and remarkable phenomena which anthropogeny teaches us.
Light | Man | Understand |
E. F. Schumacher, fully Ernst Friedrich "Fritz" Schumacher
If human vices such as greed and envy are systematically cultivated, the inevitable result is nothing less than a collapse of intelligence. A man driven by greed or envy loses the power of seeing things as they really are, of seeing things in their roundness and wholeness, and his very successes become failures. If whole societies become infected by these vices, they may indeed achieve astonishing things but they become increasingly incapable of solving the most elementary problems of everyday existence.
Erwin Schrödinger, fully Erwin Rudolf Josef Alexander Schrödinger
It seems plain and self-evident, yet it needs to be said: the isolated knowledge obtained by a group of specialists in a narrow field has in itself no value whatsoever, but only in its synthesis with all the rest of knowledge and only inasmuch as it really contributes in this synthesis toward answering the demand, "Who are we?"
Future |
Whenever you are feeling less than good, if you will stop and say, - Nothing is more important than that I feel good, I want to find a reason NOW to feel good - you will find an improved thought.
Heart |
The law of attraction is most understood when you see yourself as a magnet getting more and more of the way you FEEL.
Achievement | Attainment | Body | Joy | Money | Possessions | Property | Success |
Etty Hillesum, formally Ester "Etty" Hillesum
Ultimately, we have just one moral duty: to reclaim large areas of peace in ourselves, more and more peace, and to reflect it towards others. And the more peace there is in us, the more peace there will be in our troubled world.
The little stars will always shine while the great sun is often eclipsed.