If you are the master be sometimes blind, if you are the servant be sometimes deaf.
BUCKMINSTER FULLERA designer is an emerging synthesis of artist, inventor, mechanic, objective economist and evolutionary strategist.
More Buckminster Fuller Quotes
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Sometimes I think we’re alone. Sometimes I think we’re not. In either case, the thought is staggering.
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Tension is the great integrity.
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Don’t fight forces, use them.
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Parents are usually more careful to bestow knowledge on their children rather than virtue, the art of speaking well rather than doing well; but their manners should be of the greatest concern.
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We are not going to be able to operate our Spaceship Earth successfully nor for much longer unless we see it as a whole spaceship and our fate as common. It has to be everybody or nobody.
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Gold and silver from the dead turn often into lead.
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Humanity is acquiring all the right technology for all the wrong reasons.
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There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it’s going to be a butterfly.
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Love is metaphysical gravity.
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The youth of today are absolutely right in recognizing this nonsense of earning a wage.
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Dictators never invent their own opportunities.
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Vastly ambitious individuals who had become so effectively powerful because of their ability to remain invisible while operating behind the national scenery.
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Rashness is the faithful, but unhappy parent of misfortune.
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You can never learn less, you can only learn more.
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My ideas have undergone a process of emergence by emergency. When they are needed badly enough, they are accepted.
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