The explicable requires the inexplicable. Experience requires the nonexperienceable. The obvious requires the mystical.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLEREvery child has an enormous drive to demonstrate competence.
More R. Buckminster Fuller Quotes
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[My vision is] To make the world work for 100% of humanity in the shortest possible time through spontaneous cooperation without ecological offense or the disadvantage of anyone.
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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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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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The opposite of nature is impossible.
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Some of us are just less damaged than others.
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The most important thing about Spaceship Earth – an instruction book didn’t come with it.
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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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We must progress to the stage of doing all the right things for all the right reasons instead of doing all the right things for all the wrong reasons.
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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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Take the initiative. Go to work, and above all co-operate and don’t hold back on one another or try to gain at the expense of another. Any success in such lopsidedness will be increasingly short-lived.
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If you are the master be sometimes blind, if you are the servant be sometimes deaf.
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Seeing-is-believing is a blind spot in man’s vision.
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The more for whom we strive to serve, the greater effectiveness we will have.
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Real wealth is ideas plus energy.
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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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People never leave a sinking ship until they see the lights of another ship approaching.
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The one common experience of all humanity is the challenge of problems.
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War is the ultimate tool of politics.
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Corollary to this we find that we no sooner get a problem solved than we are overwhelmed with a multiplicity of additional problems in a most beautiful payoff of heretofore unknown, previously unrecognized, & as-yet unsolved problems.
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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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It is essential to release humanity from the false fixations of yesterday which seem now to bind it to a rationale of action leading only to extinction.
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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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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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You can rest assured that if you devote your time and attention to the highest advantage of others, the Universe will support you, always and only in the nick of time.
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If we design the environment properly It will permit both child and adult to develop safely And to behave logically.
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Geniuses are just people who had good mothers.
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