The highest of generalizations is the synergetic integration of truth and love.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERTake the initiative. Go to work, and above all co-operate and don’t hold back on one another or try to gain at the expense of another. Any success in such lopsidedness will be increasingly short-lived.
More R. Buckminster Fuller Quotes
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Integrity is the essence of everything successful.
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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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You can’t better the world by simply talking to it. Philosophy to be effective must be mechanically applied.
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Above all, I am motivated by the most mysterious drive we ever experience -that of love – I don’t think there’s any influence on my life that compares with love.
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Geodesic spheres demonstrate the compressionally discontinuous–tensionally continuous integrity. Ecology is tensegrity geodesic spherical programming.
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To ask a politician to lead us is to ask the tail of a dog to lead the dog.
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If you are the master be sometimes blind, if you are the servant be sometimes deaf.
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Life is the spirit incarnate in time.
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We find all the no-life-support-wealth-producing people going to their 1980s jobs in their cars and buses, spending trillions of dollars’ worth of petroleum daily to get to their no-wealth-producing jobs.
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The reward for being a good problem solver is to be heaped with more and more difficult problems to solve
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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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He will retain much more in his everyday life of what we term the naïveté and idealism of the child. I think the way to see what tomorrow is going to look like is just to look at our children.
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There is enough for everyone. People think that there isn’t enough, so they get as much as they can, so many people don’t have enough.
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I’m not trying to copy Nature, I’m trying to find the principles she’s using.
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All children are born geniuses; 9,999 out of every 10,000 are swiftly, inadvertently degeniusized by grownups.
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