[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.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERThe 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.
More R. Buckminster Fuller Quotes
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How often I found where I should be going only by setting out for somewhere else.
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You do not belong to you. You belong to the universe. The significance of you will remain forever obscure to you, but you may assume you are fulfilling your significance if you apply yourself to converting all you experience to highest advantage to others.
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The true business of people should be to go back to school and think about whatever it was they were thinking about before somebody came along and told them they had to earn a living.
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If we do more with less, our response will be adequate to take care of everybody.
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All children are born geniuses; 9,999 out of every 10,000 are swiftly, inadvertently degeniusized by grownups.
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The explicable requires the inexplicable. Experience requires the nonexperienceable. The obvious requires the mystical.
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There is something patently insane about all the typewriters sleeping with all the beautiful plumbing in the beautiful office buildings -and all the people sleeping in the slums.
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Love is a metaphysical gravity.
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All children are born geniuses, and we spend the first six years of their lives degeniusing them.
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The reward for being a good problem solver is to be heaped with more and more difficult problems to solve
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The Universe consists of non-simultaneously apprehended events.
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Every time man makes a new experiment he always learns more. He cannot learn less.
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I am a passenger on the spaceship Earth.
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Love is omni-inclusive, progressively exquisite, understanding and compassionately attuned to other than self.
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God is a verb, not a noun.
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If humans are not required to earn a living to be provided survival needs, many are going to want very much to be productive, but not at those tasks they did not choose to do but were forced to accept in order to earn money.
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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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Architects, if they are really to be comprehensive, must assume the enormous task of thinking in terms always disciplined to the scale of the total world pattern of needs, its resource flows, its recirculatory and regenerative processes.
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We are here as local information harvesters, local problem-solvers in support of the integrity of eternally regenerative Universe. The fact that we get away from physical problems doesn’t mean we go away from problems. The problems are really rarely physical.
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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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Don’t change the man. Change his environment.
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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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Observation of my life to date shows that the larger the number for whom I work, the more positively effective I become. Thus, it is obvious that if I work always and only for all humanity, I will be optimally effective.
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Life is the spirit incarnate in time.
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Wealth is a measure of a person’s ability to survive so many days forward.
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It is the consensus of great scientists that science is the attempt to set in order the facts of experience.
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