I am convinced that creativity is a priori to the integrity of the universe and that life is regenerative and conformity meaningless.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERPeople never leave a sinking ship until they see the lights of another ship approaching.
More R. Buckminster Fuller Quotes
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Does humanity have a chance to survive lastingly and successfully on planet Earth, and if so, how?
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Truth is the progressive diminution of residual error.
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Universe is the aggregate of all humanity’s consciously apprehended and communicated nonsimultaneous and only partially overlapping experiences.
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A problem adequately stated is a problem solved theoretically and immediately, and therefore subsequently to be solved, realistically.
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The Things to do are: the things that need doing, that you see need to be done, and that no one else seems to see need to be done.
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We must progress to the stage of doing all the right things for all the right reasons instead of doing all the right things for all the wrong reasons.
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Life is the spirit incarnate in time.
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Havenotness is caused by society’s failure to design and produce the right tools and goods. Money alone is not the panacea.
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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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All are intractably skeptical of what they do not understand. We are powerfully imprisoned in these Dark Ages simply by the terms in which we have been conditioned to think.
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Doing more with less.
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Human beings were given a left foot and a right foot to make a mistake first to the left, then to the right, left again and repeat.
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And never forget, no matter how overwhelming life’s challenges and problems seem to be, that one person can make a difference in the world. In fact, it is always because of one person that all the changes that matter in the world come about. So be that one person.
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You can rest assured that if you devote your time and attention to the highest advantage of others, the Universe will support you, always and only in the nick of time.
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You don’t belong to you. You belong to the Universe and you’re here to serve.
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Wealth is a measure of a person’s ability to survive so many days forward.
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The most important part about tomorrow is not the technology or the automation, but that man is going to come into entirely new relationships with his fellow men.
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I am a passenger on the spaceship Earth.
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The word synergy comes from the Greek sin-ergo, meaning, to work together. It describes a mutually supportive atmosphere of trust, where each individual element works towards its own goals, and where the goals may be quite varied.
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Take the initiative. Go to work, and above all co-operate and don’t hold back on one another or try to gain at the expense of another. Any success in such lopsidedness will be increasingly short-lived.
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It is well known that of every strong woman they say she has a masculine mind.
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The highest of generalizations is the synergetic integration of truth and love.
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Human beings are the only creatures on the planet that tell time and think they have to earn a living.
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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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One of humanity’s prime drives is to understand and be understood. All other living creatures are designed for highly specialized tasks. Man seems unique as the comprehensive comprehender and co-ordinator of local universe affairs.
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The true business of people should be to go back to school and think about whatever it was they were thinking about before somebody came along and told them they had to earn a living.
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