Sometimes I think we’re alone. Sometimes I think we’re not. In either case, the thought is staggering.
BUCKMINSTER FULLERI look for what needs to be done. After all, that’s how the universe designs itself.
More Buckminster Fuller Quotes
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Love is metaphysical gravity.
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Truth is a tendency.
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Vastly ambitious individuals who had become so effectively powerful because of their ability to remain invisible while operating behind the national scenery.
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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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Dictators never invent their own opportunities.
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Either war is obsolete, or men are.
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Nature is trying very hard to make us succeed, but nature does not depend on us. We are not the only experiment.
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Parents 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.
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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.
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Ninety-nine percent of who you are is invisible and untouchable.
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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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Great nations are simply the operating fronts of behind-the-scenes.
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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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Just give me a home, in a great circle dome Where stresses and strains are at ease.
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God is a verb, not a noun.
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I’m not a genius. I’m just a tremendous bundle of experience.
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You can never learn less, you can only learn more.
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Don’t fight forces, use them.
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Humanity is acquiring all the right technology for all the wrong reasons.
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People should think things out fresh and not just accept conventional terms and the conventional way of doing things.
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A designer is an emerging synthesis of artist, inventor, mechanic, objective economist and evolutionary strategist.
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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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Tension is the great integrity.
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I just invent, then wait until man comes around to needing what I’ve invented.
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Rashness is the faithful, but unhappy parent of misfortune.
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God, to me, it seems, is a verb not a noun, proper or improper.
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