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Materialism does not fit a limited world because it has no limiting principle
Drawn from what E. F. Schumacher said
What E. F. Schumacher actually said
- E. F. Schumacher Economist (1911 to 1977) whose Small Is Beautiful (1973)…
An attitude to life which seeks fulfilment 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.
Where this was said
↗Small Is Beautiful: Economics as if People Mattered (Harper & Row, 1973)archive.org
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