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.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERThere will come a time when the proper education of children, by a glorified system of spontaneous education of choice, similar to the Montessori System, will be made possible.
More R. Buckminster Fuller Quotes
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If you are the master be sometimes blind, if you are the servant be sometimes deaf.
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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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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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The Things to do are: the things that need doing, that you see need to be done, and that no one else seems to see need to be done.
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I do not look upon human beings as good or bad.
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There is enough for everyone. People think that there isn’t enough, so they get as much as they can, so many people don’t have enough.
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I’m not trying to counsel any of you to do anything really special except dare to think. And to dare to go with the truth. And to dare to really love completely.
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American labor will realize that its function is not to increase jobs, but to multiply the wealth and to expand the numbers benefited by the wealth at the swiftest possible rate.
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There is no joy equal to that of being able to work for all humanity and doing what you’re doing well.
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For man to go from less than 1% haves to 40%, living at high standard – despite decreasing resources – cannot be explained by anything other than by doing more than less.
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We were deliberately designed to learn only by trial and error. We’re brought up, unfortunately, to think that nobody should make mistakes.
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The explicable requires the inexplicable. Experience requires the nonexperienceable. The obvious requires the mystical.
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We are powerfully imprisoned in these Dark Ages simply by the terms in which we have been conditioned to think.
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The purpose of our lives is to add value to the people of this generation and those that follow.
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To expose a 4.2 Trillion dollar ripoff of the American people by the stockholders of the 1000 largest corporations over the last one-hundred years will be a tall order of business.
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