We are prisoners of our own metaphors, metaphorically speaking.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERGod is a verb, not a noun.
More R. Buckminster Fuller Quotes
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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 am a passenger on the spaceship Earth.
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Nature is all that we think we know plus all that we don’t know whether or not we know that we don’t know it.
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There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it’s going to be a butterfly.
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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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Does humanity have a chance to survive lastingly and successfully on planet Earth, and if so, how?
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Integrity is the courage and self-discipline to cooperate and initiate according to the Divine, which you know in your heart as Truth.
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We are most probably here for local information-gathering and local-Universe problem-solving in support of the integrity of eternally regenerative Universe.
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Coping with the totality of Spaceship Earth and universe is ahead for all of us.
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It doesn’t take a computer to tell you that it will save both Universe and humanity trillions of dollars a day to pay them handsomely to stay at home.
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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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You have to decide whether you want to make money or make sense, because the two are mutually exclusive.
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Seeing-is-believing is a blind spot in man’s vision.
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The question of integrity will get finer and finer and more delicate and more beautiful.
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Tombs are the clothes of the dead and a grave is a plain suit; while an expensive monument is one with embroidery.
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Love is omni-inclusive, progressively exquisite, understanding and compassionately attuned to other than self.
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War is the ultimate tool of politics.
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I am convinced that creativity is a priori to the integrity of the universe and that life is regenerative and conformity meaningless.
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Dwell not too long upon sports: for as they refresh a man that is weary, so they weary a man that is refreshed.
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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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The wave is not the water. The water merely told us about the wave moving by.
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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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You don’t belong to you. You belong to the Universe and you’re here to serve.
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In order for a world-around democracy to prosper, world society must learn how to prosper.
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I look for what needs to be done
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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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