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?
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERHow much does your building weigh? A question often used to challenge architects to consider how efficiently materials were used for the space enclosed.
More R. Buckminster Fuller Quotes
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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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There is an effective strategy open to architects. Whereas doctors deal with the interior organisms of man, architects deal with the exterior organisms of man. Architects might join with one another to carry on their work in laboratories as do doctors in anticipatory medicine.
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A problem adequately stated is a problem well on its way to being solved.
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Our little Spaceship Earth is only eight thousand miles in diameter, which is almost a negligible dimension in the great vastness of space.
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And we take away from all the industrial countries all their ideologies and all the politicians and political machine workers, people would keep right on eating. Possibly getting on a little better than before.
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The more we learn the more we realize how little we know.
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The Universe consists of non-simultaneously apprehended events.
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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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Either war is obsolete, or men are.
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You can’t learn less.
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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 live in a decaying age. Young people no longer respect their parents. They are rude and impatient. They frequently inhabit taverns and have no self control.
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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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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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You can’t better the world by simply talking to it. Philosophy to be effective must be mechanically applied.
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Mistakes are great, the more I make the smarter I get.
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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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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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on first priority in design consideration is the full realization of individual potential in order to reach the second derivative full realization for all individuals
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The dark ages still reign over all humanity, and the depth and persistence of this domination are only now becoming clear. This Dark Ages prison has no steel bars, chains, or locks. Instead, it is locked by misorientation and built of misinformation.
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Love is omni-inclusive, progressively exquisite, understanding and compassionately attuned to other than self.
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Corollary to this we find that we no sooner get a problem solved than we are overwhelmed with a multiplicity of additional problems in a most beautiful payoff of heretofore unknown, previously unrecognized, & as-yet unsolved problems.
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Wealth is the product of energy times intelligence: energy turned into artifacts that advantage human life.
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Never show unfinished work.
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Controlled time is our true wealth.
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Humanity is now experiencing history’s most difficult evolutionary transformation.
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