I am convinced that creativity is a priori to the integrity of the universe and that life is regenerative and conformity meaningless.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERI’m not trying to copy Nature, I’m trying to find the principles she’s using.
More R. Buckminster Fuller Quotes
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Television is the third parent.
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Freeing his time for its more effective exploratory investment is to give man increased wealth.
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All sports are time control demonstrations.
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I say that radiation is inherently disintegrative: it comes apart. Gravity is inherently integrative: it pulls together. And to me, there’s a good possibility that love is what I’d call metaphysical gravity. It really holds everything together.
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Bite your tongue. Get a cinder in your eye. When you feel good, you feel nothing.
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If you are the master be sometimes blind, if you are the servant be sometimes deaf.
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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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God is a verb, not a noun.
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I am convinced all of humanity is born with more gifts than we know. Most are born geniuses and just get de-geniused rapidly.
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Humanity is now experiencing history’s most difficult evolutionary transformation.
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Everyone is born a genius, but the process of living de-geniuses them.
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We should stop kidding ourselves. We should let go of things that aren’t true. It’s always better with the truth.
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We are going to have to find ways of organizing ourselves cooperatively,sanely, scientifically, harmonically and in regenerative spontaneity with the rest of humanity around the earth….
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True democracy discovers by patient experiment and unanimous acknowledgement what the laws of nature or universe may be for the physical support and metaphysical satisfaction of the human intellect’s function in universe.
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Whether humanity is to comprehensively prosper…depends entirely on the integrity of the human individuals and not on the political and economic systems. The cosmic question has been asked: are humans worthwhile to universe invention?
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