We are prisoners of our own metaphors, metaphorically speaking.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERMan knows so much and does so little.
More R. Buckminster Fuller Quotes
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There is an effective strategy open to architects. Whereas doctors deal with the interior organisms of man, architects deal with the exterior organisms of man. Architects might join with one another to carry on their work in laboratories as do doctors in anticipatory medicine.
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Mind is the antithesis of reflex, and only mind could discover mind
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I am a passenger on the spaceship Earth.
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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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And this is not a matter of an examination of the types of governments, nothing to do with politics, nothing to do with economic systems. It has to do with the individual. Does the individual have the courage to really go along with the truth?
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Integrity is the essence of everything successful.
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How often I found where I should be going only by setting out for somewhere else.
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Corollary to this we find that we no sooner get a problem solved than we are overwhelmed with a multiplicity of additional problems in a most beautiful payoff of heretofore unknown, previously unrecognized, & as-yet unsolved problems.
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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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Wealth is a measure of a person’s ability to survive so many days forward.
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… reform the environment and not man; being absolutely confident that if you give man the right environment, he will behave favorably.
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Mistakes are great, the more I make the smarter I get.
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Truth is the progressive diminution of residual error.
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The assumption is that the inevitability of a solution’s realization is inherent in the interaction of human intellect and the constantly transformative evolution of physical universe.
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Love is a metaphysical gravity.
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