Our little Spaceship Earth is only eight thousand miles in diameter, which is almost a negligible dimension in the great vastness of space.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERNo man can prove upon awakening that he is the man who he thinks went to bed the night before, or that anything that he recollects is anything other than a convincing dream.
More R. Buckminster Fuller Quotes
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Seeing-is-believing is a blind spot in man’s vision.
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The individual can take initiatives without anybody’s permission. Only individuals can think. Only the individual disregards his fears and commits himself exclusively to reforming the human environment.
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I am convinced all of humanity is born with more gifts than we know. Most are born geniuses and just get de-geniused rapidly.
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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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My ideas have undergone a process of emergence by emergency. When they are needed badly enough, they are accepted.
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Whether it is to be Utopia or Oblivion will be a touch-and-go relay race right up to the final moment…. Humanity is in ‘final exam’ as to whether or not it qualifies for continuance in Universe.
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Tombs are the clothes of the dead and a grave is a plain suit; while an expensive monument is one with embroidery.
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Don’t change the man. Change his environment.
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The question of integrity will get finer and finer and more delicate and more beautiful.
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If humans are not required to earn a living to be provided survival needs, many are going to want very much to be productive, but not at those tasks they did not choose to do but were forced to accept in order to earn money.
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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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I look for what needs to be done
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As long as one human being is hungry, the entire human race is hungry.
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The Things to do are: the things that need doing, that you see need to be done, and that no one else seems to see need to be done.
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Love is omni-inclusive, progressively exquisite, understanding and compassionately attuned to other than self.
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