R. Buckminster Fuller on hypocrisy
R. Buckminster Fuller18 quotes“Man knows so much and does so little.”
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Take 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.
R. Buckminster FullerR. Buckminster Fuller I look for what needs to be done
R. Buckminster FullerR. Buckminster Fuller 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.
R. Buckminster FullerR. Buckminster Fuller You don’t belong to you. You belong to the Universe and you’re here to serve.
R. Buckminster FullerR. Buckminster Fuller The most important thing about Spaceship Earth – an instruction book didn’t come with it.
R. Buckminster FullerR. Buckminster Fuller We are in an age that assumes the narrowing trends of specialization to be logical, natural, and desirable. Consequently, society expects all earnestly responsible communication to be crisply brief…. In the meantime, humanity has been deprived of comprehensive understanding.
R. Buckminster FullerR. Buckminster Fuller 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.
R. Buckminster FullerR. Buckminster Fuller Observation of my life to date shows that the larger the number for whom I work, the more positively effective I become. Thus, it is obvious that if I work always and only for all humanity, I will be optimally effective.
R. Buckminster FullerR. Buckminster Fuller And never forget, no matter how overwhelming life’s challenges and problems seem to be, that one person can make a difference in the world. In fact, it is always because of one person that all the changes that matter in the world come about. So be that one person.
R. Buckminster FullerR. Buckminster Fuller It is the consensus of great scientists that science is the attempt to set in order the facts of experience.
R. Buckminster FullerR. Buckminster Fuller Our power is in our ability to decide.
R. Buckminster FullerR. Buckminster Fuller I do not look upon human beings as good or bad.
R. Buckminster FullerR. Buckminster Fuller I’m not a genius. I’m just a tremendous bundle of experience.
R. Buckminster FullerR. Buckminster Fuller Universe is plural at minimum sixfold.
R. Buckminster FullerR. Buckminster Fuller Each one of us has something to contribute. This really depends on each one doing their own thinking, but not following any kind of rule.
R. Buckminster FullerR. Buckminster Fuller It is the integrity of each individual human that is in final examination. On personal integrity hangs humanity’s fate.
R. Buckminster FullerR. Buckminster Fuller
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If I am right, then (religious fundamentalists) will not go to Heaven, because there is no Heaven. If they are right, then they will not go to Heaven, because they are hypocrites.
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Thomas PaineThomas Paine It is no fault of Christianity that a hypocrite falls into sin.
St. JeromeSt. Jerome If I talk to a girl, it’s assumed that I’m having a scene with her. If I don’t, then it’s assumed that I’m gay.
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