Coping with the totality of Spaceship Earth and universe is ahead for all of us.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERThe 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.
More R. Buckminster Fuller Quotes
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The earth is like a spaceship that didn’t come with an operating manual.
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The World has become too dangerous for anything less than Utopia.
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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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It is now highly feasible to take care of everybody on Earth at a ‘higher standard of living than any have ever known.’ It no longer has to be you or me. Selfishness is unnecessary and henceforth unrationalizable as mandated by survival.
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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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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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You can’t better the world by simply talking to it. Philosophy to be effective must be mechanically applied.
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Wealth is a measure of a person’s ability to survive so many days forward.
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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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My ideas have undergone a process of emergence by emergency. When they are needed badly enough, they are accepted.
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Human beings are the only creatures on the planet that tell time and think they have to earn a living.
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Real wealth is ideas plus energy.
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Pollution is nothing but resources we’re not harvesting.
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Too much overcharges Nature, and turns more into disease than nourishment. ‘Tis thought and digestion which makes books serviceable, and give health and vigor to the mind.
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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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