Humans beings always do the most intelligent thing…after they’ve tried every stupid alternative and none of them have worked
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERThe Universe consists of non-simultaneously apprehended events.
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It is essential that anyone reading this book know at the outset that the author is apolitical. I was convinced in 1927 that humanity’s most fundamental survival problems could never be solved by politics.
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Love is omni-inclusive, progressively exquisite, understanding and compassionately attuned to other than self.
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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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There is an effective strategy open to architects. Whereas doctors deal with the interior organisms of man, architects deal with the exterior organisms of man. Architects might join with one another to carry on their work in laboratories as do doctors in anticipatory medicine.
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Some of us are just less damaged than others.
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It is one of our most exciting discoveries that local discovery leads to a complex of further discoveries.
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Every time man makes a new experiment he always learns more. He cannot learn less.
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The individual can take initiatives without anybody’s permission. Only individuals can think. Only the individual disregards his fears and commits himself exclusively to reforming the human environment.
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Don’t change the man. Change his environment.
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Freeing his time for its more effective exploratory investment is to give man increased wealth.
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Life is the spirit incarnate in time.
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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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Our little Spaceship Earth is only eight thousand miles in diameter, which is almost a negligible dimension in the great vastness of space.
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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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Man knows so much and does so little.
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