Only our minds are able to discover the generalized principles operating without exception in each and every special-experience case which if detected and mastered will give knowledgeable advantage in all instances.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERObservation of my life to date shows that the larger the number for whom I work, the more positively effective I become. Thus, it is obvious that if I work always and only for all humanity, I will be optimally effective.
More R. Buckminster Fuller Quotes
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Some of us are just less damaged than others.
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The most important thing about Spaceship Earth – an instruction book didn’t come with it.
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There is something patently insane about all the typewriters sleeping with all the beautiful plumbing in the beautiful office buildings -and all the people sleeping in the slums.
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I am convinced all of humanity is born with more gifts than we know. Most are born geniuses and just get de-geniused rapidly.
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Technologically we now have four [seven!] billion billionaires on board Spaceship Earth who are entirely unaware of their good fortune.
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The wave is not the water. The water merely told us about the wave moving by.
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Every time man makes a new experiment he always learns more. He cannot learn less.
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Architects, if they are really to be comprehensive, must assume the enormous task of thinking in terms always disciplined to the scale of the total world pattern of needs, its resource flows, its recirculatory and regenerative processes.
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Man is going to be displaced altogether as a specialist by the computer. Man himself is being forced to reestablish, employ, and enjoy his innate ‘comprehensivity.
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How much does your building weigh? A question often used to challenge architects to consider how efficiently materials were used for the space enclosed.
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The explicable requires the inexplicable. Experience requires the nonexperienceable. The obvious requires the mystical.
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Love is omni-inclusive, progressively exquisite, understanding and compassionately attuned to other than self.
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Don’t attempt to reform man. An adequately organized environment will permit humanity’s original, innate capabilities to become successful.
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You can’t learn less.
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Above all, I am motivated by the most mysterious drive we ever experience -that of love – I don’t think there’s any influence on my life that compares with love.
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