No man can prove upon awakening that he is the man who he thinks went to bed the night before, or that anything that he recollects is anything other than a convincing dream.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERNo man can prove upon awakening that he is the man who he thinks went to bed the night before, or that anything that he recollects is anything other than a convincing dream.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERDwell not too long upon sports: for as they refresh a man that is weary, so they weary a man that is refreshed.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERIt 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 FULLERMan knows so much and does so little.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERWe 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.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERAll sports are time control demonstrations.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERThere is no such thing as genius, some children are just less damaged than others.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERWe are prisoners of our own metaphors, metaphorically speaking.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERIt 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.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERI look for what needs to be done
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERWealth is the product of energy times intelligence: energy turned into artifacts that advantage human life.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERYou cannot change how someone thinks, but you can give them a tool to use which will lead them to think differently.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERTruth is the progressive diminution of residual error.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLEREvery time man makes a new experiment he always learns more. He cannot learn less.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERYou can’t learn less.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERPhysics has found no straight lines. Instead, the physical universe consists of only waves undulating back and forth allowing for corrections and balance.
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