We are powerfully imprisoned in these Dark Ages simply by the terms in which we have been conditioned to think.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERIt is not for me to change you. The question is, how can I be of service to you without diminishing your degrees of freedom?
More R. Buckminster Fuller Quotes
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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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It is the integrity of each individual human that is in final examination. On personal integrity hangs humanity’s fate.
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I’m not a genius. I’m just a tremendous bundle of experience.
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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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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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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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If you want to teach people a new way of thinking, don’t bother trying to teach them. Instead, give them a tool, the use of which will lead to new ways of thinking.
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You can’t learn less.
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We speak erroneously of “artificial” materials, “synthetics”, and so forth. The basis for this erroneous terminology is the notion that Nature has made certain things which we call natural, and everything else is “man-made”, ergo artificial.
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The one common experience of all humanity is the challenge of problems.
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Doing more with less.
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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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Pollution is nothing but the resources we are not harvesting. We allow them to disperse because we’ve been ignorant of their value.
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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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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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Universe is the aggregate of all humanity’s consciously apprehended and communicated nonsimultaneous and only partially overlapping experiences.
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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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Only ten years ago the ‘more with less’ technology reached the point where this could be done. All humanity now has the option to become enduringly successful.
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For the first time in history it is now possible to take care of everybody at a higher standard of living than any have ever known.
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Those who play with the devil’s toys will be brought by degrees to wield his sword.
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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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I look for what needs to be done
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If humanity does not opt for integrity we are through completely. It is absolutely touch and go. Each one of us could make the difference.
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Integrity is the essence of everything successful.
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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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