In order for a world-around democracy to prosper, world society must learn how to prosper.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERAbove all, I am motivated by the most mysterious drive we ever experience -that of love – I don’t think there’s any influence on my life that compares with love.
More R. Buckminster Fuller Quotes
-
-
Initiative can neither be created nor delegated. It can only spring from the self-determining individual, who decides that the wisdom of others is not always better than his own.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER -
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
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER -
Whenever I draw a circle, I immediately want to step out of it.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER -
Geniuses are just people who had good mothers.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER -
Tombs are the clothes of the dead and a grave is a plain suit; while an expensive monument is one with embroidery.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER -
Geodesic spheres demonstrate the compressionally discontinuous–tensionally continuous integrity. Ecology is tensegrity geodesic spherical programming.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER -
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.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER -
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.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER -
Freeing his time for its more effective exploratory investment is to give man increased wealth.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER -
If you change the environment, you change the people.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER -
Every time man makes a new experiment he always learns more. He cannot learn less.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER -
It is not for me to change you. The question is, how can I be of service to you without diminishing your degrees of freedom?
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER -
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.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER -
… reform the environment and not man; being absolutely confident that if you give man the right environment, he will behave favorably.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER -
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 FULLER