It is essential to release humanity from the false fixations of yesterday which seem now to bind it to a rationale of action leading only to extinction.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERSeeing-is-believing is a blind spot in man’s vision.
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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God is a verb, not a noun.
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It is now highly feasible to take care of everybody on Earth at a ‘higher standard of living than any have ever known.’ It no longer has to be you or me. Selfishness is unnecessary and henceforth unrationalizable as mandated by survival.
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Pollution is nothing but resources we’re not harvesting.
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Man knows so much and does so little.
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In the United States, throughout all twenty-four hours of every day of the year – year after year.
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Real wealth is ideas plus energy.
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If you are the master be sometimes blind, if you are the servant be sometimes deaf.
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The more we learn the more we realize how little we know.
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Every time man makes a new experiment he always learns more. He cannot learn less.
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Realizing the direct competition with foreign industry on a straight labor basis will mean swiftly decreasing wages per hour and longer hours and decreasing buying power of the public.
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In order for a world-around democracy to prosper, world society must learn how to prosper.
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What usually happens in the educational process is that the faculties are dulled, overloaded, stuffed and paralyzed so that by the time most people are mature they have lost their innate capabilities.
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You cannot change how someone thinks, but you can give them a tool to use which will lead them to think differently.
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Seeing-is-believing is a blind spot in man’s vision.
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