Bite your tongue. Get a cinder in your eye. When you feel good, you feel nothing.
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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Real wealth is ideas plus energy.
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History’s political and economic power structures have always abhorred ‘idle people’ as potential troublemakers. Yet nature never abhors seemingly idle trees, grass, snails, coral reefs, and clouds in the sky.
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It is essential to release humanity from the false fixations of yesterday which seem now to bind it to a rationale of action leading only to extinction.
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Man is going to be displaced altogether as a specialist by the computer. Man himself is being forced to reestablish, employ, and enjoy his innate ‘comprehensivity.
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What usually happens in the educational process is that the faculties are dulled, overloaded, stuffed and paralyzed so that by the time most people are mature they have lost their innate capabilities.
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The most important thing about Spaceship Earth – an instruction book didn’t come with it.
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Some of us are just less damaged than others.
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For the first time in history it is now possible to take care of everybody at a higher standard of living than any have ever known.
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Don’t try to make me consistent. I am learning all the time.
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Human beings are the only creatures on the planet that tell time and think they have to earn a living.
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The more we learn the more we realize how little we know.
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We are here as local information harvesters, local problem-solvers in support of the integrity of eternally regenerative Universe. The fact that we get away from physical problems doesn’t mean we go away from problems. The problems are really rarely physical.
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It is new design by architects versus world revolution by political leadership.
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All sports are time control demonstrations.
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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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