We are prisoners of our own metaphors, metaphorically speaking.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERTake 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.
More R. Buckminster Fuller Quotes
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I set about fifty-five years ago (1927) to see what a penniless, unknown human individual with a dependent wife and newborn child might be able to do effectively on behalf of all humanity
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These are the synergetic rules that evolution is employing and trying to make clear to us. They are not man-made laws. They are the infinitely accommodative laws of the intellectual integrity governing universe.
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We are most probably here for local information-gathering and local-Universe problem-solving in support of the integrity of eternally regenerative Universe.
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The more for whom we strive to serve, the greater effectiveness we will have.
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It is essential that anyone reading this book know at the outset that the author is apolitical. I was convinced in 1927 that humanity’s most fundamental survival problems could never be solved by politics.
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The explicable requires the inexplicable. Experience requires the nonexperienceable. The obvious requires the mystical.
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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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Whether humanity is to comprehensively prosper…depends entirely on the integrity of the human individuals and not on the political and economic systems. The cosmic question has been asked: are humans worthwhile to universe invention?
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It is now highly feasible to take care of everybody on Earth at a ‘higher standard of living than any have ever known.’ It no longer has to be you or me. Selfishness is unnecessary and henceforth unrationalizable as mandated by survival.
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The highest of generalizations is the synergetic integration of truth and love.
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Geniuses are just people who had good mothers.
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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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Dwell not too long upon sports: for as they refresh a man that is weary, so they weary a man that is refreshed.
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Love is omni-inclusive, progressively exquisite, understanding and compassionately attuned to other than self.
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I have great hope for tomorrow. My hope lies in three things-truth, youth, and love.
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