Wealth is a measure of a person’s ability to survive so many days forward.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERIf 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.
More R. Buckminster Fuller Quotes
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Human beings were given a left foot and a right foot to make a mistake first to the left, then to the right, left again and repeat.
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The explicable requires the inexplicable. Experience requires the nonexperienceable. The obvious requires the mystical.
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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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Don’t try to make me consistent. I am learning all the time.
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Quite clearly, our task is predominantly metaphysical, for it is how to get all of humanity to educate itself swiftly enough to generate spontaneous social behaviors that will avoid extinction.
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When individuals join in a cooperative venture, the power generated far exceeds what they could have accomplished acting individually.
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The question of integrity will get finer and finer and more delicate and more beautiful.
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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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These are the synergetic rules that evolution is employing and trying to make clear to us. They are not man-made laws. They are the infinitely accommodative laws of the intellectual integrity governing universe.
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How often I found where I should be going only by setting out for somewhere else.
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[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.
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And this is not a matter of an examination of the types of governments, nothing to do with politics, nothing to do with economic systems. It has to do with the individual. Does the individual have the courage to really go along with the truth?
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Wealth is the product of energy times intelligence: energy turned into artifacts that advantage human life.
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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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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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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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Each one of us has something to contribute. This really depends on each one doing their own thinking, but not following any kind of rule.
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All sports are time control demonstrations.
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We are going to have to find ways of organizing ourselves cooperatively,sanely, scientifically, harmonically and in regenerative spontaneity with the rest of humanity around the earth….
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It is not for me to change you. The question is, how can I be of service to you without diminishing your degrees of freedom?
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Don’t change the man. Change his environment.
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Nature is all that we think we know plus all that we don’t know whether or not we know that we don’t know it.
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We will always have war until there is enough of every essential to support all lives everywhere around earth.
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It is new design by architects versus world revolution by political leadership.
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The purpose of our lives is to add value to the people of this generation and those that follow.
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Doing more with less.
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