The more we learn the more we realize how little we know.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERSpecialization breeds biases that ultimately aggregate as international and ideological discord, which, in turn, leads to war.
More R. Buckminster Fuller Quotes
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Gold and silver from the dead turn often into lead.
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Havenotness is caused by society’s failure to design and produce the right tools and goods. Money alone is not the panacea.
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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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Love is a metaphysical gravity.
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Whenever I draw a circle, I immediately want to step out of it.
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These are the synergetic rules that evolution is employing and trying to make clear to us. They are not man-made laws. They are the infinitely accommodative laws of the intellectual integrity governing universe.
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Universe is the aggregate of all humanity’s consciously apprehended and communicated nonsimultaneous and only partially overlapping experiences.
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Initiative can neither be created nor delegated. It can only spring from the self-determining individual, who decides that the wisdom of others is not always better than his own.
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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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There will come a time when the proper education of children, by a glorified system of spontaneous education of choice, similar to the Montessori System, will be made possible.
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A problem adequately stated is a problem solved theoretically and immediately, and therefore subsequently to be solved, realistically.
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We are going to have to find ways of organizing ourselves cooperatively,sanely, scientifically, harmonically and in regenerative spontaneity with the rest of humanity around the earth….
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I am a passenger on the spaceship Earth.
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The World has become too dangerous for anything less than Utopia.
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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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