Mind is the antithesis of reflex, and only mind could discover mind
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERWhen individuals join in a cooperative venture, the power generated far exceeds what they could have accomplished acting individually.
More R. Buckminster Fuller Quotes
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Right now I am a passenger on space vehicle Earth zooming about the Sun at 60,000 miles per hour somewhere in the solar system.
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Havenotness is caused by society’s failure to design and produce the right tools and goods. Money alone is not the panacea.
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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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There is no such thing as genius, some children are just less damaged than others.
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What usually happens in the educational process is that the faculties are dulled, overloaded, stuffed and paralyzed so that by the time most people are mature they have lost their innate capabilities.
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People never leave a sinking ship until they see the lights of another ship approaching.
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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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I say that radiation is inherently disintegrative: it comes apart. Gravity is inherently integrative: it pulls together. And to me, there’s a good possibility that love is what I’d call metaphysical gravity. It really holds everything together.
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I am deeply impressed with the designer of the universe; I am confident I couldnt have done anywhere near such a good job.
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If you change the environment, you change the people.
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Love is a metaphysical gravity.
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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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Gold and silver from the dead turn often into lead.
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It is new design by architects versus world revolution by political leadership.
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The question of integrity will get finer and finer and more delicate and more beautiful.
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Don’t change the man. Change his environment.
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We are most probably here for local information-gathering and local-Universe problem-solving in support of the integrity of eternally regenerative Universe.
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We find all the no-life-support-wealth-producing people going to their 1980s jobs in their cars and buses, spending trillions of dollars’ worth of petroleum daily to get to their no-wealth-producing jobs.
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Everyone is born a genius, but the process of living de-geniuses them.
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Love is omni-inclusive, progressively exquisite, understanding and compassionately attuned to other than self.
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I set about fifty-five years ago (1927) to see what a penniless, unknown human individual with a dependent wife and newborn child might be able to do effectively on behalf of all humanity
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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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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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I am convinced that creativity is a priori to the integrity of the universe and that life is regenerative and conformity meaningless.
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Our little Spaceship Earth is only eight thousand miles in diameter, which is almost a negligible dimension in the great vastness of space.
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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.
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