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.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERWe are powerfully imprisoned in these Dark Ages simply by the terms in which we have been conditioned to think.
More R. Buckminster Fuller Quotes
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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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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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In order for a world-around democracy to prosper, world society must learn how to prosper.
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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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I look for what needs to be done. After all, that’s how the universe designs itself.
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If success or failure of this planet and of human beings depended on how I am and what I do… HOW WOULD I BE? WHAT WOULD I DO?
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The World has become too dangerous for anything less than Utopia.
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I say that radiation is inherently disintegrative: it comes apart. Gravity is inherently integrative: it pulls together. And to me, there’s a good possibility that love is what I’d call metaphysical gravity. It really holds everything together.
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American labor will realize that its function is not to increase jobs, but to multiply the wealth and to expand the numbers benefited by the wealth at the swiftest possible rate.
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Whether humanity is to comprehensively prosper…depends entirely on the integrity of the human individuals and not on the political and economic systems. The cosmic question has been asked: are humans worthwhile to universe invention?
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Wealth is the product of energy times intelligence: energy turned into artifacts that advantage human life.
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Too much overcharges Nature, and turns more into disease than nourishment. ‘Tis thought and digestion which makes books serviceable, and give health and vigor to the mind.
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Human beings were given a left foot and a right foot to make a mistake first to the left, then to the right, left again and repeat.
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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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Our power is in our ability to decide.
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