Quite clearly, our task is predominantly metaphysical, for it is how to get all of humanity to educate itself swiftly enough to generate spontaneous social behaviors that will avoid extinction.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLEREvery time man makes a new experiment he always learns more. He cannot learn less.
More R. Buckminster Fuller Quotes
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The more for whom we strive to serve, the greater effectiveness we will have.
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Love is a metaphysical gravity.
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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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You cannot change how someone thinks, but you can give them a tool to use which will lead them to think differently.
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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.
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Nature is all that we think we know plus all that we don’t know whether or not we know that we don’t know it.
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Man knows so much and does so little.
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Too much overcharges Nature, and turns more into disease than nourishment. ‘Tis thought and digestion which makes books serviceable, and give health and vigor to the mind.
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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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Mind is the antithesis of reflex, and only mind could discover mind
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You have to decide whether you want to make money or make sense, because the two are mutually exclusive.
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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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All are intractably skeptical of what they do not understand. We are powerfully imprisoned in these Dark Ages simply by the terms in which we have been conditioned to think.
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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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It is the integrity of each individual human that is in final examination. On personal integrity hangs humanity’s fate.
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