Brain deals exclusively with the physical, and mind exclusively with the metaphysical.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERToo 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.
More R. Buckminster Fuller Quotes
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I do not look upon human beings as good or bad.
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Don’t try to make me consistent. I am learning all the time.
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If you are the master be sometimes blind, if you are the servant be sometimes deaf.
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Pollution is merely a resource that isn’t being used properly.
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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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Whenever I draw a circle, I immediately want to step out of it.
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Geodesic spheres demonstrate the compressionally discontinuous–tensionally continuous integrity. Ecology is tensegrity geodesic spherical programming.
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There will come a time when the proper education of children, by a glorified system of spontaneous education of choice, similar to the Montessori System, will be made possible.
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Topology is the science of fundamental pattern and structural relationships of event constellations.
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It is essential to release humanity from the false fixations of yesterday which seem now to bind it to a rationale of action leading only to extinction.
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We should stop kidding ourselves. We should let go of things that aren’t true. It’s always better with the truth.
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History’s political and economic power structures have always abhorred ‘idle people’ as potential troublemakers. Yet nature never abhors seemingly idle trees, grass, snails, coral reefs, and clouds in the sky.
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Spaceship Earth was so extraordinarily well invented and designed that to our knowledge humans have been on board it for two million years not even knowing that they were on board a ship.
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The Things to do are: the things that need doing, that you see need to be done, and that no one else seems to see need to be done.
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Every child has an enormous drive to demonstrate competence.
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