The procedure we are pursuing is that of true democracy. Semi-democracy accepts the dictatorship of a majority in establishing its arbitrary, ergo, unnatural, laws.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERDon’t change the man. Change his environment.
More R. Buckminster Fuller Quotes
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The more for whom we strive to serve, the greater effectiveness we will have.
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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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I have great hope for tomorrow. My hope lies in three things-truth, youth, and love.
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All sports are time control demonstrations.
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Mistakes are great, the more I make the smarter I get.
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Brain deals exclusively with the physical, and mind exclusively with the metaphysical.
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Man is going to be displaced altogether as a specialist by the computer. Man himself is being forced to reestablish, employ, and enjoy his innate ‘comprehensivity.
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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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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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Pollution is nothing but resources we’re not harvesting.
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Seeing-is-believing is a blind spot in man’s vision.
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Specialization breeds biases that ultimately aggregate as international and ideological discord, which, in turn, leads to war.
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Love is omni-inclusive, progressively exquisite, understanding and compassionately attuned to other than self.
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We are prisoners of our own metaphors, metaphorically speaking.
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I’m not trying to counsel any of you to do anything really special except dare to think. And to dare to go with the truth. And to dare to really love completely.
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