He will retain much more in his everyday life of what we term the naïveté and idealism of the child. I think the way to see what tomorrow is going to look like is just to look at our children.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERThere is something patently insane about all the typewriters sleeping with all the beautiful plumbing in the beautiful office buildings -and all the people sleeping in the slums.
More R. Buckminster Fuller Quotes
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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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War is the ultimate tool of politics.
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Don’t try to make me consistent. I am learning all the time.
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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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Spaceship Earth was so extraordinarily well invented and designed that to our knowledge humans have been on board it for two million years not even knowing that they were on board a ship.
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In order for a world-around democracy to prosper, world society must learn how to prosper.
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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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There is no such thing as genius, some children are just less damaged than others.
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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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Don’t change the man. Change his environment.
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I’m not a genius. I’m just a tremendous bundle of experience.
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Coping with the totality of Spaceship Earth and universe is ahead for all of us.
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We were deliberately designed to learn only by trial and error. We’re brought up, unfortunately, to think that nobody should make mistakes.
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It is the integrity of each individual human that is in final examination. On personal integrity hangs humanity’s fate.
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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.
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