I’m not a genius. I’m just a tremendous bundle of experience.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERI am a passenger on the spaceship Earth.
More R. Buckminster Fuller Quotes
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Every child has an enormous drive to demonstrate competence.
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If you are the master be sometimes blind, if you are the servant be sometimes deaf.
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In order for a world-around democracy to prosper, world society must learn how to prosper.
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Doing the right things for the wrong reasons is typical of humanity. Precession – not conscious planning – provides a productive outcome for misguided political and military campaigns.
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Bite your tongue. Get a cinder in your eye. When you feel good, you feel nothing.
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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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Technologically we now have four [seven!] billion billionaires on board Spaceship Earth who are entirely unaware of their good fortune.
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Only ten years ago the ‘more with less’ technology reached the point where this could be done. All humanity now has the option to become enduringly successful.
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We were deliberately designed to learn only by trial and error. We’re brought up, unfortunately, to think that nobody should make mistakes.
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Our little Spaceship Earth is only eight thousand miles in diameter, which is almost a negligible dimension in the great vastness of space.
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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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We are prisoners of our own metaphors, metaphorically speaking.
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We live in a decaying age. Young people no longer respect their parents. They are rude and impatient. They frequently inhabit taverns and have no self control.
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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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It is the integrity of each individual human that is in final examination. On personal integrity hangs humanity’s fate.
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