Sometimes I think we’re alone. Sometimes I think we’re not. In either case, the thought is staggering.
BUCKMINSTER FULLERTombs are the clothes of the dead and a grave is a plain suit; while an expensive monument is one with embroidery.
More Buckminster Fuller Quotes
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How often I found where I should be going only by setting out for somewhere else.
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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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Man knows so much and does so little.
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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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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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A proverb is much matter distilled into few words.
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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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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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If humanity does not opt for integrity we are through completely. It is absolutely touch and go.
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My ideas have undergone a process of emergence by emergency. When they are needed badly enough, they are accepted.
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I just invent, then wait until man comes around to needing what I’ve invented.
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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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If you are the master be sometimes blind, if you are the servant be sometimes deaf.
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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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