Ninety-nine percent of humanity does not know that we have the option to “make it” economically on this planet and in the Universe. We do.
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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For the first time in history it is now possible to take care of everybody at a higher standard of living than any have ever known.
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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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If humans are not required to earn a living to be provided survival needs, many are going to want very much to be productive, but not at those tasks they did not choose to do but were forced to accept in order to earn money.
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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.
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My ideas have undergone a process of emergence by emergency. When they are needed badly enough, they are accepted.
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How much does your building weigh? A question often used to challenge architects to consider how efficiently materials were used for the space enclosed.
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Instead, humans will spontaneously take upon themselves those tasks that world society really needs to have done.
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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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History’s political and economic power structures have always abhorred ‘idle people’ as potential troublemakers. Yet nature never abhors seemingly idle trees, grass, snails, coral reefs, and clouds in the sky.
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on first priority in design consideration is the full realization of individual potential in order to reach the second derivative full realization for all individuals
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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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Mistakes are great, the more I make the smarter I get.
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There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it’s going to be a butterfly.
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Love is omni-inclusive, progressively exquisite, understanding and compassionately attuned to other than self.
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Mind is the antithesis of reflex, and only mind could discover mind
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