Integrity is the courage and self-discipline to cooperate and initiate according to the Divine, which you know in your heart as Truth.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERThe word synergy comes from the Greek sin-ergo, meaning, to work together. It describes a mutually supportive atmosphere of trust, where each individual element works towards its own goals, and where the goals may be quite varied.
More R. Buckminster Fuller Quotes
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As long as one human being is hungry, the entire human race is hungry.
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I’m not trying to copy Nature, I’m trying to find the principles she’s using.
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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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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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Some of us are just less damaged than others.
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War is the ultimate tool of politics.
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Specialization breeds biases that ultimately aggregate as international and ideological discord, which, in turn, leads to war.
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Don’t attempt to reform man. An adequately organized environment will permit humanity’s original, innate capabilities to become successful.
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The most important thing about Spaceship Earth – an instruction book didn’t come with it.
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However, if we leave the industrial machinery and their energy-distribution networks and leave them also all the people who have routine jobs operating the industrial machinery and distributing its products.
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You don’t belong to you. You belong to the Universe and you’re here to serve.
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Brain deals exclusively with the physical, and mind exclusively with the metaphysical.
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How often I found where I should be going only by setting out for somewhere else.
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Nature is all that we think we know plus all that we don’t know whether or not we know that we don’t know it.
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Pollution is merely a resource that isn’t being used properly.
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Bite your tongue. Get a cinder in your eye. When you feel good, you feel nothing.
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Love is a metaphysical gravity.
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In order for a world-around democracy to prosper, world society must learn how to prosper.
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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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Degrees of accuracy are only degrees of refinement and magnitude in no way affects the fundamental reliability, which refers, as directional or angular sense, toward centralized truths. Truth is a relationship.
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Don’t change the man. Change his environment.
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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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There is something patently insane about all the typewriters sleeping with all the beautiful plumbing in the beautiful office buildings -and all the people sleeping in the slums.
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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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Too much overcharges Nature, and turns more into disease than nourishment. ‘Tis thought and digestion which makes books serviceable, and give health and vigor to the mind.
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I look for what needs to be done. After all, that’s how the universe designs itself.
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