You can’t better the world by simply talking to it. Philosophy to be effective must be mechanically applied.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERBite your tongue. Get a cinder in your eye. When you feel good, you feel nothing.
More R. Buckminster Fuller Quotes
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Each one of us has something to contribute. This really depends on each one doing their own thinking, but not following any kind of rule.
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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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The most important thing about Spaceship Earth – an instruction book didn’t come with it.
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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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Seeing-is-believing is a blind spot in man’s vision.
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Brain deals exclusively with the physical, and mind exclusively with the metaphysical.
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It is not for me to change you. The question is, how can I be of service to you without diminishing your degrees of freedom?
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It is new design by architects versus world revolution by political leadership.
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There is no joy equal to that of being able to work for all humanity and doing what you’re doing well.
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Bite your tongue. Get a cinder in your eye. When you feel good, you feel nothing.
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The explicable requires the inexplicable. Experience requires the nonexperienceable. The obvious requires the mystical.
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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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And we take away from all the industrial countries all their ideologies and all the politicians and political machine workers, people would keep right on eating. Possibly getting on a little better than before.
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Man is going to be displaced altogether as a specialist by the computer. Man himself is being forced to reestablish, employ, and enjoy his innate ‘comprehensivity.
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The most important part about tomorrow is not the technology or the automation, but that man is going to come into entirely new relationships with his fellow men.
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