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?
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERBrain deals exclusively with the physical, and mind exclusively with the metaphysical.
More R. Buckminster Fuller Quotes
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The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun.
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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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The most important thing about Spaceship Earth – an instruction book didn’t come with it.
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Doing more with less.
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All their political leaders, and all their political organizations, and I can tell you that within six months, two billion people will die of starvation, having gone through great pain and deprivation along the way.
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Mistakes are great, the more I make the smarter I get.
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If you are the master be sometimes blind, if you are the servant be sometimes deaf.
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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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Too much overcharges Nature, and turns more into disease than nourishment. ‘Tis thought and digestion which makes books serviceable, and give health and vigor to the mind.
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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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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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Technologically we now have four [seven!] billion billionaires on board Spaceship Earth who are entirely unaware of their good fortune.
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To ask a politician to lead us is to ask the tail of a dog to lead the dog.
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I look for what needs to be done
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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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