Whenever I draw a circle, I immediately want to step out of it.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERHistory’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.
More R. Buckminster Fuller Quotes
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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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It is the integrity of each individual human that is in final examination. On personal integrity hangs humanity’s fate.
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The procedure we are pursuing is that of true democracy. Semi-democracy accepts the dictatorship of a majority in establishing its arbitrary, ergo, unnatural, laws.
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The most important thing about Spaceship Earth – an instruction book didn’t come with it.
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Either war is obsolete, or men are.
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Don’t try to make me consistent. I am learning all the time.
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The earth is like a spaceship that didn’t come with an operating manual.
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The wave is not the water. The water merely told us about the wave moving by.
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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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We are not going to be able to operate our Spaceship Earth successfully nor for much longer unless we see it as a whole spaceship and our fate as common. It has to be everybody or nobody.
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Children are born true scientists. They spontaneously experiment and experience and reexperience again. They select, combine, and test, seeking to find order in their experiences – “which is the mostest? which is the leastest?”
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The assumption is that the inevitability of a solution’s realization is inherent in the interaction of human intellect and the constantly transformative evolution of physical universe.
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Bite your tongue. Get a cinder in your eye. When you feel good, you feel nothing.
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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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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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