“Modernity needs to understand that being rich and becoming rich are not mathematically, personally, socially, and ethically the same thing.”
Source: The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms (2010), p. 22
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In the World.
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Context: I learned early that business is business and politics is politics. The proof is how few important businessmen have made good politicians. They may think that they are very smart about everything because they made millions of dollars by digging a hole in the ground and finding oil, but the talent and luck needed to become rich are not the same talent and luck needed to succeed on Parliament Hill.
Source: Who Is Man? (1965), Ch. 5<!-- Disavowal of transcendence, p. 83 -->
Context: As a result of letting the drive for power dominate existence, man is bound to lose his sense for nature's otherness. Nature becomes a utensil, an object to be used. The world ceases to be that which is and becomes that which is available.
It is a submissive world that modern man is in the habit of sensing, and he seems content with the riches of thinghood. Space is the limit of his ambitions, and there is little he desires besides it. Correspondingly, mans consciousness recedes more and more in the process of reducing his status to that of a consumer and manipulator. He has enclosed himself in the availability of things, with the shutters down and no sight of what is beyond availability.
A Few Maxims for the Instruction of the Over-Educated (1894)
Source: True Love: A Practice for Awakening the Heart