We are not going to be able to operate our Spaceship Earth successfully nor for much longer unless we see it as a whole spaceship and our fate as common. It has to be everybody or nobody.
BUCKMINSTER FULLERParents are usually more careful to bestow knowledge on their children rather than virtue, the art of speaking well rather than doing well; but their manners should be of the greatest concern.
More Buckminster Fuller Quotes
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Truth is a tendency.
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Everyone is born a genius, but the process of living de-geniuses them.
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How often I found where I should be going only by setting out for somewhere else.
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Search others for their virtue, and yourself for your vices.
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Each one of us could make the difference.
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A proverb is much matter distilled into few words.
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Ninety-nine percent of who you are is invisible and untouchable.
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Now there is one outstandingly important fact regarding Spaceship Earth, and that is that no instruction book came with it.
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Here is God’s purpose – for God, to me, it seems, is a verb not a noun, proper or improper.
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Those who play with the devil’s toys will be brought by degrees to wield his sword.
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A designer is an emerging synthesis of artist, inventor, mechanic, objective economist and evolutionary strategist.
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Just give me a home, in a great circle dome Where stresses and strains are at ease.
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There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it’s going to be a butterfly.
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When I am working on a problem, I never think about beauty but when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
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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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Faith is much better than belief. Belief is when someone else does the thinking.
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War is the ultimate tool of politics.
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The most important thing about Spaceship Earth – an instruction book didn’t come with it.
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I just invent, then wait until man comes around to needing what I’ve invented.
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The youth of today are absolutely right in recognizing this nonsense of earning a wage.
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God is a verb, not a noun.
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Most of my advances were by mistake. You uncover what is when you get rid of what isn’t.
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Gold and silver from the dead turn often into lead.
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Tombs are the clothes of the dead and a grave is a plain suit; while an expensive monument is one with embroidery.
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Great nations are simply the operating fronts of behind-the-scenes.
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Man knows so much and does so little.
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