The highest of generalizations is the synergetic integration of truth and love.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERThe earth is like a spaceship that didn’t come with an operating manual.
More R. Buckminster Fuller Quotes
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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 individual can take initiatives without anybody’s permission. Only individuals can think. Only the individual disregards his fears and commits himself exclusively to reforming the human environment.
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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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… 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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How often I found where I should be going only by setting out for somewhere else.
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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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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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Don’t attempt to reform man. An adequately organized environment will permit humanity’s original, innate capabilities to become successful.
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He will retain much more in his everyday life of what we term the naïveté and idealism of the child. I think the way to see what tomorrow is going to look like is just to look at our children.
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Integrity is the essence of everything successful.
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We must do away with the absolutely specious notion that everybody has to earn a living.
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Love is a metaphysical gravity.
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It is one of the strange facts of experience that when we try to think about the future, our thoughts jump backwards. It may well be that nature has some fundamental metaphysical law by which opening up what we call the future also opens up the past in equal degree.
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[My vision is] To make the world work for 100% of humanity in the shortest possible time through spontaneous cooperation without ecological offense or the disadvantage of anyone.
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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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