One of humanity’s prime drives is to understand and be understood. All other living creatures are designed for highly specialized tasks. Man seems unique as the comprehensive comprehender and co-ordinator of local universe affairs.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERI’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.
More R. Buckminster Fuller Quotes
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The highest of generalizations is the synergetic integration of truth and love.
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Never show unfinished work.
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Love is a metaphysical gravity.
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We speak erroneously of “artificial” materials, “synthetics”, and so forth. The basis for this erroneous terminology is the notion that Nature has made certain things which we call natural, and everything else is “man-made”, ergo artificial.
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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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Children are born true scientists. They spontaneously experiment and experience and reexperience again. They select, combine, and test, seeking to find order in their experiences – “which is the mostest? which is the leastest?”
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As long as one human being is hungry, the entire human race is hungry.
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The one common experience of all humanity is the challenge of problems.
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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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It is new design by architects versus world revolution by political leadership.
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Whether it is to be Utopia or Oblivion will be a touch-and-go relay race right up to the final moment…. Humanity is in ‘final exam’ as to whether or not it qualifies for continuance in Universe.
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God is a verb, not a noun.
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When individuals join in a cooperative venture, the power generated far exceeds what they could have accomplished acting individually.
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Universe is plural at minimum sixfold.
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We are here as local information harvesters, local problem-solvers in support of the integrity of eternally regenerative Universe. The fact that we get away from physical problems doesn’t mean we go away from problems. The problems are really rarely physical.
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