black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

If humanity does not opt for integrity we are through completely. It is absolutely touch and go. Each one of us could make the difference.

R. Buckminster Fuller

You have to decide whether you want to make money or make sense, because the two are mutually exclusive.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Money People Want
We should stop kidding ourselves. We should let go of things that aren’t true. It’s always better with the truth.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Go Letting Life Should
We are not going to be able to operate our Spaceship Earth successfully nor for much longer unless we see it as a whole spaceship and our fate as common. It has to be everybody or nobody.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Diversity Fate Success
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 FULLER

Challenges Space Technology
All sports are time control demonstrations.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Demonstration Sports
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.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Humanity Numbers Obvious
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.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Special Thinking Trying
My ideas have undergone a process of emergence by emergency. When they are needed badly enough, they are accepted.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Emergencies Enough Ideas
Above 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.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Effectiveness Mysterious Thinking
For the first time in history it is now possible to take care of everybody at a higher standard of living than any have ever known.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Successful Technology Years
Brain deals exclusively with the physical, and mind exclusively with the metaphysical.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Brain Metaphysical Mind
The explicable requires the inexplicable. Experience requires the nonexperienceable. The obvious requires the mystical.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Inexplicable Mystical Obvious
on first priority in design consideration is the full realization of individual potential in order to reach the second derivative full realization for all individuals
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Design Order Priorities
There is no joy equal to that of being able to work for all humanity and doing what you’re doing well.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Able Humanity Joy
In order for a world-around democracy to prosper, world society must learn how to prosper.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Democracy Order World
There are no solids. There are no things. There are only interfering and non-interfering patterns operative in pure principle, and principles are eternal.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Eternal Immortality Pattern Principles