The true business of people should be to go back to school and think about whatever it was they were thinking about before somebody came along and told them they had to earn a living.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERI do not look upon human beings as good or bad.
More R. Buckminster Fuller Quotes
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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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There is something patently insane about all the typewriters sleeping with all the beautiful plumbing in the beautiful office buildings -and all the people sleeping in the slums.
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We speak erroneously of “artificial” materials, “synthetics”, and so forth. The basis for this erroneous terminology is the notion that Nature has made certain things which we call natural, and everything else is “man-made”, ergo artificial.
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Truth is the progressive diminution of residual error.
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Either war is obsolete, or men are.
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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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People never leave a sinking ship until they see the lights of another ship approaching.
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Physics has found no straight lines. Instead, the physical universe consists of only waves undulating back and forth allowing for corrections and balance.
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I set about fifty-five years ago (1927) to see what a penniless, unknown human individual with a dependent wife and newborn child might be able to do effectively on behalf of all humanity
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Above all, I am motivated by the most mysterious drive we ever experience -that of love – I don’t think there’s any influence on my life that compares with love.
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I have great hope for tomorrow. My hope lies in three things-truth, youth, and love.
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Whether it is to be Utopia or Oblivion will be a touch-and-go relay race right up to the final moment…. Humanity is in ‘final exam’ as to whether or not it qualifies for continuance in Universe.
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Everyone is born a genius, but the process of living de-geniuses them.
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Love is a metaphysical gravity.
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All their political leaders, and all their political organizations, and I can tell you that within six months, two billion people will die of starvation, having gone through great pain and deprivation along the way.
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