It is now highly feasible to take care of everybody on Earth at a ‘higher standard of living than any have ever known.’ It no longer has to be you or me. Selfishness is unnecessary and henceforth unrationalizable as mandated by survival.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERLife is the spirit incarnate in time.
More R. Buckminster Fuller Quotes
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It is well known that of every strong woman they say she has a masculine mind.
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I am convinced that creativity is a priori to the integrity of the universe and that life is regenerative and conformity meaningless.
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There is no such thing as genius, some children are just less damaged than others.
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…primarily the individual is going to study at home.
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It is the integrity of each individual human that is in final examination. On personal integrity hangs humanity’s fate.
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We find all the no-life-support-wealth-producing people going to their 1980s jobs in their cars and buses, spending trillions of dollars’ worth of petroleum daily to get to their no-wealth-producing jobs.
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In order for a world-around democracy to prosper, world society must learn how to prosper.
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No man can prove upon awakening that he is the man who he thinks went to bed the night before, or that anything that he recollects is anything other than a convincing dream.
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The World has become too dangerous for anything less than Utopia.
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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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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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The highest of generalizations is the synergetic integration of truth and love.
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A problem adequately stated is a problem solved theoretically and immediately, and therefore subsequently to be solved, realistically.
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Pollution is nothing but the resources we are not harvesting. We allow them to disperse because we’ve been ignorant of their value.
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Whenever I draw a circle, I immediately want to step out of it.
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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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Only ten years ago the ‘more with less’ technology reached the point where this could be done. All humanity now has the option to become enduringly successful.
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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.
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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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Either war is obsolete, or men are.
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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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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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Don’t change the man. Change his environment.
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If you are the master be sometimes blind, if you are the servant be sometimes deaf.
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Only our minds are able to discover the generalized principles operating without exception in each and every special-experience case which if detected and mastered will give knowledgeable advantage in all instances.
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You cannot change how someone thinks, but you can give them a tool to use which will lead them to think differently.
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