For man to go from less than 1% haves to 40%, living at high standard – despite decreasing resources – cannot be explained by anything other than by doing more than less.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERIt is the integrity of each individual human that is in final examination. On personal integrity hangs humanity’s fate.
More R. Buckminster Fuller Quotes
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Quite clearly, our task is predominantly metaphysical, for it is how to get all of humanity to educate itself swiftly enough to generate spontaneous social behaviors that will avoid extinction.
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I am a passenger on the spaceship Earth.
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I am convinced that creativity is a priori to the integrity of the universe and that life is regenerative and conformity meaningless.
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The explicable requires the inexplicable. Experience requires the nonexperienceable. The obvious requires the mystical.
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Children are born true scientists. They spontaneously experiment and experience and reexperience again. They select, combine, and test, seeking to find order in their experiences – “which is the mostest? which is the leastest?”
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Doing the right things for the wrong reasons is typical of humanity. Precession – not conscious planning – provides a productive outcome for misguided political and military campaigns.
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Never show unfinished work.
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All children are born geniuses; 9,999 out of every 10,000 are swiftly, inadvertently degeniusized by grownups.
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There is no such thing as genius, some children are just less damaged than others.
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This will bring out the real you that often gets buried inside a character that has acquired a superficial array of behaviors induced or imposed by others on the individual.
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All sports are time control demonstrations.
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It is not for me to change you. The question is, how can I be of service to you without diminishing your degrees of freedom?
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No man can prove upon awakening that he is the man who he thinks went to bed the night before, or that anything that he recollects is anything other than a convincing dream.
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The earth is like a spaceship that didn’t come with an operating manual.
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You can rest assured that if you devote your time and attention to the highest advantage of others, the Universe will support you, always and only in the nick of time.
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