How often I found where I should be going only by setting out for somewhere else.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERAbove all, I am motivated by the most mysterious drive we ever experience -that of love – I don’t think there’s any influence on my life that compares with love.
More R. Buckminster Fuller Quotes
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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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You can’t learn less.
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Pollution is nothing but the resources we are not harvesting. We allow them to disperse because we’ve been ignorant of their value.
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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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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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The dark ages still reign over all humanity, and the depth and persistence of this domination are only now becoming clear. This Dark Ages prison has no steel bars, chains, or locks. Instead, it is locked by misorientation and built of misinformation.
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It is well known that of every strong woman they say she has a masculine mind.
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There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it’s going to be a butterfly.
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Coping with the totality of Spaceship Earth and universe is ahead for all of us.
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It is the consensus of great scientists that science is the attempt to set in order the facts of experience.
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I’m not trying to counsel any of you to do anything really special except dare to think. And to dare to go with the truth. And to dare to really love completely.
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[A]ll the categories of creatures act individually as special-case and may be linearly analyzed; retrospectively, it is discoverable that inadvertently they are all interaffecting one another synergetically as a spherical, interprecessionally regenerative, tensegrity spherical integrity.
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…primarily the individual is going to study at home.
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Don’t try to make me consistent. I am learning all the time.
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These are the synergetic rules that evolution is employing and trying to make clear to us. They are not man-made laws. They are the infinitely accommodative laws of the intellectual integrity governing universe.
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