What a man most needs is not a knowledge of how to get more, but a knowledge of the most he can do without, and of how to get along without it. The essential cultural discrimination is not between having and not having or haves and have-nots, but between the superfluous and the indispensable. Wisdom, it seems to me, is always poised upon the knowledge of minimums; it might be thought to be the art of minimums.
Author: Wendell Berry
Source: The Marginalian (Brain Pickings)
Subjects: Education | Scholarship, Life & Society, Material Possessions, Personal Improvement
Source: The Marginalian (Brain Pickings)
Subjects: Education | Scholarship, Life & Society, Material Possessions, Personal Improvement
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