We are in an age that assumes the narrowing trends of specialization to be logical, natural, and desirable. Consequently, society expects all earnestly responsible communication to be crisply brief…. In the meantime, humanity has been deprived of comprehensive understanding.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERIt is the integrity of each individual human that is in final examination. On personal integrity hangs humanity’s fate.
More R. Buckminster Fuller Quotes
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I’m not trying to counsel any of you to do anything really special except dare to think. And to dare to go with the truth. And to dare to really love completely.
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The question of integrity will get finer and finer and more delicate and more beautiful.
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Search others for their virtue, and yourself for your vices.
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The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun.
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Dwell not too long upon sports: for as they refresh a man that is weary, so they weary a man that is refreshed.
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If you want to teach people a new way of thinking, don’t bother trying to teach them. Instead, give them a tool, the use of which will lead to new ways of thinking.
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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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Geodesic spheres demonstrate the compressionally discontinuous–tensionally continuous integrity. Ecology is tensegrity geodesic spherical programming.
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Humans beings always do the most intelligent thing…after they’ve tried every stupid alternative and none of them have worked
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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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You do not belong to you. You belong to the universe. The significance of you will remain forever obscure to you, but you may assume you are fulfilling your significance if you apply yourself to converting all you experience to highest advantage to others.
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If humanity does not opt for integrity we are through completely. It is absolutely touch and go. Each one of us could make the difference.
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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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Doing more with less.
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on first priority in design consideration is the full realization of individual potential in order to reach the second derivative full realization for all individuals
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