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.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERUniverse is plural at minimum sixfold.
More R. Buckminster Fuller Quotes
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The purpose of our lives is to add value to the people of this generation and those that follow.
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Ninety-nine percent of humanity does not know that we have the option to “make it” economically on this planet and in the Universe. We do.
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Don’t change the man. Change his environment.
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Instead, humans will spontaneously take upon themselves those tasks that world society really needs to have done.
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How often I found where I should be going only by setting out for somewhere else.
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It is not for me to change you. The question is, how can I be of service to you without diminishing your degrees of freedom?
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You can’t better the world by simply talking to it. Philosophy to be effective must be mechanically applied.
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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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Man knows so much and does so little.
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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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When individuals join in a cooperative venture, the power generated far exceeds what they could have accomplished acting individually.
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We are going to have to find ways of organizing ourselves cooperatively,sanely, scientifically, harmonically and in regenerative spontaneity with the rest of humanity around the earth….
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[My vision is] To make the world work for 100% of humanity in the shortest possible time through spontaneous cooperation without ecological offense or the disadvantage of anyone.
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Life is the spirit incarnate in time.
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It is essential that anyone reading this book know at the outset that the author is apolitical. I was convinced in 1927 that humanity’s most fundamental survival problems could never be solved by politics.
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