E. F. Schumacher Quotes

Treat the world like a head.

The connectedness of things is what the educator contemplates to the limit of his capacity. No human capacity is great enough to permit a vision of the world as simple, but if the educator does not aim at the vision no one else will, and the consequences are dire when no one does.

I am not an Athenian or a Greek, but a citizen of the world.

My philosophy comes from a worldview that looks at the world as one. It's a holistic view that sees the world as interconnected and interdependent and integrated in so many different ways, which informs my politics.

Not enough people in this world, I think, carry a cosmic perspective with them. It could be life-changing.

I think Americans suffer for their lack of travel, awareness of the world. It has horribly warped our sense of place in the scheme of things.

You have to realize there are other people, other economies, governments, cultures, religions, and destinies going on at the same time as yours. You have to widen the scope of your lens and start seeing more.

If one were given a single window from which to look upon the changing Eastern world, it should face, I think, the road.

I know the whole world is watching now. And I wish the world could see what I can see. Sometimes you have to get up really high to understand how small you really are. I'm going home now.

Think lightly of yourself and deeply of the world

If all people are encouraged to actually see who they're coexisting with, or even if they're not coexisting with other people.It's like to look at the world you're in.

You can have a lot of New York and still see what's going on in the rest of the world, I think - like in China.

And Clinton was like that - he saw the whole playing field. He didn't just see the event that he was at or the circumstances of that week or that month. He saw the whole playing field all the time.

My definition is that geo-enlightenment is understanding the interconnectedness of things.

You know, my view is that we have a big world out there.

I think it's important to look at the world as a bigger place than just the bubble that we live in. It's so easy to get caught up in things of a trivial nature.

A wise man’s country is the world.

What images do we see from the rest of the world? We see natural disasters, war, terror. We see refugees, and we see horrible diseases. Right? We see beautiful beaches, cute animals, beautiful nature, cultural rites and stuff. And then we're supposed to make the connection in our head and create a worldview out of this. And how is that possible?

I look back and understand the world a bit better and know how competitive it is .

For all is like an ocean, all flows and connects; touch it in one place and it echoes at the other end of the world.

Consider yourself lightly; consider the world deeply.

Generally speaking, Rand Paul is been more wrong than right. He has an isolationist view of the world that I don't share.

To truly know the world, look deeply within your own being; to truly know yourself, take real interest in the world.

It's a ho wide world that we living in.

In looking out upon the world, we forget that the world is looking at itself.