It is one of the strange facts of experience that when we try to think about the future, our thoughts jump backwards. It may well be that nature has some fundamental metaphysical law by which opening up what we call the future also opens up the past in equal degree.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERDon’t try to make me consistent. I am learning all the time.
More R. Buckminster Fuller Quotes
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We live in a decaying age. Young people no longer respect their parents. They are rude and impatient. They frequently inhabit taverns and have no self control.
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You cannot change how someone thinks, but you can give them a tool to use which will lead them to think differently.
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We must do away with the absolutely specious notion that everybody has to earn a living.
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Every time man makes a new experiment he always learns more. He cannot learn less.
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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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It is essential to release humanity from the false fixations of yesterday which seem now to bind it to a rationale of action leading only to extinction.
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War is the ultimate tool of politics.
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Television is the third parent.
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Rashness is the faithful, but unhappy parent of misfortune.
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The highest of generalizations is the synergetic integration of truth and love.
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To ask a politician to lead us is to ask the tail of a dog to lead the dog.
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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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Observation 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.
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Life is the spirit incarnate in time.
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Havenotness is caused by society’s failure to design and produce the right tools and goods. Money alone is not the panacea.
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