Heaven and Hell
The Note-Books of Samuel Butler (1912), Part II - Elementary Morality
“A professional is one who does his best work when he feels the least like working.”
“This work may be best described as an attempt to construct a of the United States.”
Source: Structure of American economy, 1919-1929, 1941, p. 9; As cited in: Ronald E. Miller, peter D. Blair Input-Output Analysis: Foundations and Extensions, (2009), p. 730.
Attributed by Sir George Schuster, Christianity and human relations in industry (1951), p. 109
Recent variant: Capitalism is the astounding belief that the most wickedest of men will do the most wickedest of things for the greatest good of everyone.
As quoted in Moving Forward: Programme for a Participatory Economy (2000) by Michael Albert, p. 128
Attributed
“Things work out best for those who make the best of the way things work out.”
Variant: Things turn out best for those who make best of how things turn out.
Source: On Writing Well (Fifth Edition, orig. pub. 1976), Chapter 13, Bits & Pieces, p. 136.
To His Newborn Great-Grandson, address on his ninetieth birthday (1958)
The Eye of Spirit : An Integral Vision for a World Gone Slightly Mad (1997)
Context: The integral approach is committed to the full spectrum of consciousness as it manifests in all its extraordinary diversity. This allows the integral approach to recognize and honor the Great Holarchy of Being first elucidated by the perennial philosophy and the great wisdom traditions in general.... The integral vision embodies an attempt to take the best of both worlds, ancient and modern. But that demands a critical stance willing to reject unflinchingly the worst of both as well.
