Degrees of accuracy are only degrees of refinement and magnitude in no way affects the fundamental reliability, which refers, as directional or angular sense, toward centralized truths. Truth is a relationship.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERYou don’t belong to you. You belong to the Universe and you’re here to serve.
More R. Buckminster Fuller Quotes
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Every time man makes a new experiment he always learns more. He cannot learn less.
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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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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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The procedure we are pursuing is that of true democracy. Semi-democracy accepts the dictatorship of a majority in establishing its arbitrary, ergo, unnatural, laws.
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Everyone is born a genius, but the process of living de-geniuses them.
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Gold and silver from the dead turn often into lead.
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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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Architects, if they are really to be comprehensive, must assume the enormous task of thinking in terms always disciplined to the scale of the total world pattern of needs, its resource flows, its recirculatory and regenerative processes.
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You do not belong to you. You belong to the universe. The significance of you will remain forever obscure to you, but you may assume you are fulfilling your significance if you apply yourself to converting all you experience to highest advantage to others.
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The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun.
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Specialization breeds biases that ultimately aggregate as international and ideological discord, which, in turn, leads to war.
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Man knows so much and does so little.
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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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In order for a world-around democracy to prosper, world society must learn how to prosper.
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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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