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.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERThis will bring out the real you that often gets buried inside a character that has acquired a superficial array of behaviors induced or imposed by others on the individual.
More R. Buckminster Fuller Quotes
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Either war is obsolete, or men are.
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Specialization breeds biases that ultimately aggregate as international and ideological discord, which, in turn, leads to war.
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Brain deals exclusively with the physical, and mind exclusively with the metaphysical.
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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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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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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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Humanity is now experiencing history’s most difficult evolutionary transformation.
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No 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.
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All of humanity now has the option to “make it” successfully and sustainably, by virtue of our having minds, discovering principles and being able to employ these principles to do more with less.
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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.
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Humans beings always do the most intelligent thing…after they’ve tried every stupid alternative and none of them have worked
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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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Don’t attempt to reform man. An adequately organized environment will permit humanity’s original, innate capabilities to become successful.
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All sports are time control demonstrations.
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Every time man makes a new experiment he always learns more. He cannot learn less.
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