It is essential that anyone reading this book know at the outset that the author is apolitical. I was convinced in 1927 that humanity’s most fundamental survival problems could never be solved by politics.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERThe World has become too dangerous for anything less than Utopia.
More R. Buckminster Fuller Quotes
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Initiative can neither be created nor delegated. It can only spring from the self-determining individual, who decides that the wisdom of others is not always better than his own.
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When I am working on a problem, I never think about beauty but when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
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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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Every time man makes a new experiment he always learns more. He cannot learn less.
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I set about fifty-five years ago (1927) to see what a penniless, unknown human individual with a dependent wife and newborn child might be able to do effectively on behalf of all humanity
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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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You can’t learn less.
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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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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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Never show unfinished work.
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It is one of our most exciting discoveries that local discovery leads to a complex of further discoveries.
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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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Mind is the antithesis of reflex, and only mind could discover mind
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Every child has an enormous drive to demonstrate competence.
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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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If success or failure of this planet and of human beings depended on how I am and what I do… HOW WOULD I BE? WHAT WOULD I DO?
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The more for whom we strive to serve, the greater effectiveness we will have.
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The Things to do are: the things that need doing, that you see need to be done, and that no one else seems to see need to be done.
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There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it’s going to be a butterfly.
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We are powerfully imprisoned in these Dark Ages simply by the terms in which we have been conditioned to think.
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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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American labor will realize that its function is not to increase jobs, but to multiply the wealth and to expand the numbers benefited by the wealth at the swiftest possible rate.
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Instead, humans will spontaneously take upon themselves those tasks that world society really needs to have done.
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It is new design by architects versus world revolution by political leadership.
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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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It is the integrity of each individual human that is in final examination. On personal integrity hangs humanity’s fate.
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