There is enough for everyone. People think that there isn’t enough, so they get as much as they can, so many people don’t have enough.
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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The highest of generalizations is the synergetic integration of truth and love.
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How much does your building weigh? A question often used to challenge architects to consider how efficiently materials were used for the space enclosed.
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Wealth is a measure of a person’s ability to survive so many days forward.
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You can rest assured that if you devote your time and attention to the highest advantage of others, the Universe will support you, always and only in the nick of time.
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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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Quite clearly, our task is predominantly metaphysical, for it is how to get all of humanity to educate itself swiftly enough to generate spontaneous social behaviors that will avoid extinction.
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We are prisoners of our own metaphors, metaphorically speaking.
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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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We must progress to the stage of doing all the right things for all the right reasons instead of doing all the right things for all the wrong reasons.
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Humanity is now experiencing history’s most difficult evolutionary transformation.
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If you are the master be sometimes blind, if you are the servant be sometimes deaf.
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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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The more for whom we strive to serve, the greater effectiveness we will have.
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It is the integrity of each individual human that is in final examination. On personal integrity hangs humanity’s fate.
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It is new design by architects versus world revolution by political leadership.
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