Whether it is to be Utopia or Oblivion will be a touch-and-go relay race right up to the final moment…. Humanity is in ‘final exam’ as to whether or not it qualifies for continuance in Universe.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERBrain deals exclusively with the physical, and mind exclusively with the metaphysical.
More R. Buckminster Fuller Quotes
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Life is the spirit incarnate in time.
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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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I look for what needs to be done. After all, that’s how the universe designs itself.
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The explicable requires the inexplicable. Experience requires the nonexperienceable. The obvious requires the mystical.
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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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You have to decide whether you want to make money or make sense, because the two are mutually exclusive.
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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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Humanity is now experiencing history’s most difficult evolutionary transformation.
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Whether humanity is to comprehensively prosper…depends entirely on the integrity of the human individuals and not on the political and economic systems. The cosmic question has been asked: are humans worthwhile to universe invention?
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To expose a 4.2 Trillion dollar ripoff of the American people by the stockholders of the 1000 largest corporations over the last one-hundred years will be a tall order of business.
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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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The one common experience of all humanity is the challenge of problems.
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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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I set about fifty-five years ago (1927) to see what a penniless, unknown human individual with a dependent wife and newborn child might be able to do effectively on behalf of all humanity
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When I’m working on a problem, I never think about beauty. I think only how to solve the problem.
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