We should stop kidding ourselves. We should let go of things that aren’t true. It’s always better with the truth.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERGold and silver from the dead turn often into lead.
More R. Buckminster Fuller Quotes
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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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Human beings are the only creatures on the planet that tell time and think they have to earn a living.
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I’m utterly convinced that we are all here for one another and that every experience that everyone is having is relevant. It all counts. The Universe is so extraordinarily well designed that it needs all those experiences.
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… reform the environment and not man; being absolutely confident that if you give man the right environment, he will behave favorably.
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The Universe consists of non-simultaneously apprehended events.
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In order for a world-around democracy to prosper, world society must learn how to prosper.
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What usually happens in the educational process is that the faculties are dulled, overloaded, stuffed and paralyzed so that by the time most people are mature they have lost their innate capabilities.
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There will come a time when the proper education of children, by a glorified system of spontaneous education of choice, similar to the Montessori System, will be made possible.
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When I’m working on a problem, I never think about beauty. I think only how to solve the problem.
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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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Universe is plural at minimum sixfold.
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Wealth is the product of energy times intelligence: energy turned into artifacts that advantage human life.
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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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The most important part about tomorrow is not the technology or the automation, but that man is going to come into entirely new relationships with his fellow men.
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This will bring out the real you that often gets buried inside a character that has acquired a superficial array of behaviors induced or imposed by others on the individual.
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