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.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERI am convinced that creativity is a priori to the integrity of the universe and that life is regenerative and conformity meaningless.
More R. Buckminster Fuller Quotes
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Universe is plural at minimum sixfold.
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Bite your tongue. Get a cinder in your eye. When you feel good, you feel nothing.
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I live on Earth at present, and I don’t know what I am. I know that I am not a category. I am not a thing – a noun. I seem to be a verb, an evolutionary process – an integral function of the universe.
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We speak erroneously of “artificial” materials, “synthetics”, and so forth. The basis for this erroneous terminology is the notion that Nature has made certain things which we call natural, and everything else is “man-made”, ergo artificial.
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You can’t learn less.
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Either war is obsolete, or men are.
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Human beings were given a left foot and a right foot to make a mistake first to the left, then to the right, left again and repeat.
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If you are the master be sometimes blind, if you are the servant be sometimes deaf.
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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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If we design the environment properly It will permit both child and adult to develop safely And to behave logically.
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It doesn’t take a computer to tell you that it will save both Universe and humanity trillions of dollars a day to pay them handsomely to stay at home.
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Whether it is to be Utopia or Oblivion will be a touch-and-go relay race right up to the final moment…. Humanity is in ‘final exam’ as to whether or not it qualifies for continuance in Universe.
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Love is a metaphysical gravity.
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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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And we take away from all the industrial countries all their ideologies and all the politicians and political machine workers, people would keep right on eating. Possibly getting on a little better than before.
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