If you change the environment, you change the people.
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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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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You do not belong to you. You belong to the universe. The significance of you will remain forever obscure to you, but you may assume you are fulfilling your significance if you apply yourself to converting all you experience to highest advantage to others.
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Coping with the totality of Spaceship Earth and universe is ahead for all of us.
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The highest of generalizations is the synergetic integration of truth and love.
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If we design the environment properly It will permit both child and adult to develop safely And to behave logically.
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If you are the master be sometimes blind, if you are the servant be sometimes deaf.
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Truth is the progressive diminution of residual error.
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We should stop kidding ourselves. We should let go of things that aren’t true. It’s always better with the truth.
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Love is omni-inclusive, progressively exquisite, understanding and compassionately attuned to other than self.
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Our power is in our ability to decide.
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I’m utterly convinced that we are all here for one another and that every experience that everyone is having is relevant. It all counts. The Universe is so extraordinarily well designed that it needs all those experiences.
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If success or failure of this planet and of human beings depended on how I am and what I do… HOW WOULD I BE? WHAT WOULD I DO?
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The World has become too dangerous for anything less than Utopia.
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Freeing his time for its more effective exploratory investment is to give man increased wealth.
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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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Pollution is nothing but resources we’re not harvesting.
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However, if we leave the industrial machinery and their energy-distribution networks and leave them also all the people who have routine jobs operating the industrial machinery and distributing its products.
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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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Integrity is the essence of everything successful.
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A problem adequately stated is a problem solved theoretically and immediately, and therefore subsequently to be solved, realistically.
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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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We must do away with the absolutely specious notion that everybody has to earn a living.
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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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Every time man makes a new experiment he always learns more. He cannot learn less.
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Everyone is born a genius, but the process of living de-geniuses them.
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Those who play with the devil’s toys will be brought by degrees to wield his sword.
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