How much does your building weigh? A question often used to challenge architects to consider how efficiently materials were used for the space enclosed.
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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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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There will come a time when the proper education of children, by a glorified system of spontaneous education of choice, similar to the Montessori System, will be made possible.
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You can rest assured that if you devote your time and attention to the highest advantage of others, the Universe will support you, always and only in the nick of time.
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Never show unfinished work.
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Mind is the antithesis of reflex, and only mind could discover mind
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I do not look upon human beings as good or bad.
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Technologically we now have four [seven!] billion billionaires on board Spaceship Earth who are entirely unaware of their good fortune.
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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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You don’t belong to you. You belong to the Universe and you’re here to serve.
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I say that radiation is inherently disintegrative: it comes apart. Gravity is inherently integrative: it pulls together. And to me, there’s a good possibility that love is what I’d call metaphysical gravity. It really holds everything together.
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… reform the environment and not man; being absolutely confident that if you give man the right environment, he will behave favorably.
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Instead, humans will spontaneously take upon themselves those tasks that world society really needs to have done.
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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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The World has become too dangerous for anything less than Utopia.
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I look for what needs to be done. After all, that’s how the universe designs itself.
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