All are intractably skeptical of what they do not understand. We are powerfully imprisoned in these Dark Ages simply by the terms in which we have been conditioned to think.
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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It is new design by architects versus world revolution by political leadership.
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Every child has an enormous drive to demonstrate competence.
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If you want to teach people a new way of thinking, don’t bother trying to teach them. Instead, give them a tool, the use of which will lead to new ways of thinking.
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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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The earth is like a spaceship that didn’t come with an operating manual.
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… reform the environment and not man; being absolutely confident that if you give man the right environment, he will behave favorably.
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The procedure we are pursuing is that of true democracy. Semi-democracy accepts the dictatorship of a majority in establishing its arbitrary, ergo, unnatural, laws.
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Love is a metaphysical gravity.
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Does humanity have a chance to survive lastingly and successfully on planet Earth, and if so, how?
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Spaceship Earth was so extraordinarily well invented and designed that to our knowledge humans have been on board it for two million years not even knowing that they were on board a ship.
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Initiative can neither be created nor delegated. It can only spring from the self-determining individual, who decides that the wisdom of others is not always better than his own.
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Each one of us has something to contribute. This really depends on each one doing their own thinking, but not following any kind of rule.
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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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[A]ll the categories of creatures act individually as special-case and may be linearly analyzed; retrospectively, it is discoverable that inadvertently they are all interaffecting one another synergetically as a spherical, interprecessionally regenerative, tensegrity spherical integrity.
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I have great hope for tomorrow. My hope lies in three things-truth, youth, and love.
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If we do more with less, our response will be adequate to take care of everybody.
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Specialization breeds biases that ultimately aggregate as international and ideological discord, which, in turn, leads to war.
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The reward for being a good problem solver is to be heaped with more and more difficult problems to solve
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Life is the spirit incarnate in time.
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A problem adequately stated is a problem well on its way to being solved.
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Take the initiative. Go to work, and above all co-operate and don’t hold back on one another or try to gain at the expense of another. Any success in such lopsidedness will be increasingly short-lived.
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You can’t better the world by simply talking to it. Philosophy to be effective must be mechanically applied.
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Every time man makes a new experiment he always learns more. He cannot learn less.
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Wealth is a measure of a person’s ability to survive so many days forward.
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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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The individual can take initiatives without anybody’s permission. Only individuals can think. Only the individual disregards his fears and commits himself exclusively to reforming the human environment.
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