We will always have war until there is enough of every essential to support all lives everywhere around earth.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERCoping with the totality of Spaceship Earth and universe is ahead for all of us.
More R. Buckminster Fuller Quotes
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Life is the spirit incarnate in time.
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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.
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…primarily the individual is going to study at home.
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Spaceship Earth was so extraordinarily well invented and designed that to our knowledge humans have been on board it for two million years not even knowing that they were on board a ship.
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If success or failure of this planet and of human beings depended on how I am and what I do… HOW WOULD I BE? WHAT WOULD I DO?
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The Things to do are: the things that need doing, that you see need to be done, and that no one else seems to see need to be done.
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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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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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American labor will realize that its function is not to increase jobs, but to multiply the wealth and to expand the numbers benefited by the wealth at the swiftest possible rate.
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The dark ages still reign over all humanity, and the depth and persistence of this domination are only now becoming clear. This Dark Ages prison has no steel bars, chains, or locks. Instead, it is locked by misorientation and built of misinformation.
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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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We are prisoners of our own metaphors, metaphorically speaking.
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Doing the right things for the wrong reasons is typical of humanity. Precession – not conscious planning – provides a productive outcome for misguided political and military campaigns.
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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.
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Observation of my life to date shows that the larger the number for whom I work, the more positively effective I become. Thus, it is obvious that if I work always and only for all humanity, I will be optimally effective.
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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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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.
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Never show unfinished work.
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Bite your tongue. Get a cinder in your eye. When you feel good, you feel nothing.
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When individuals join in a cooperative venture, the power generated far exceeds what they could have accomplished acting individually.
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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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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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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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The earth is like a spaceship that didn’t come with an operating manual.
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You can’t learn less.
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