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.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERI’m utterly convinced that we are all here for one another and that every experience that everyone is having is relevant. It all counts. The Universe is so extraordinarily well designed that it needs all those experiences.
More R. Buckminster Fuller Quotes
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It doesn’t take a computer to tell you that it will save both Universe and humanity trillions of dollars a day to pay them handsomely to stay at home.
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The dark ages still reign over all humanity, and the depth and persistence of this domination are only now becoming clear. This Dark Ages prison has no steel bars, chains, or locks. Instead, it is locked by misorientation and built of misinformation.
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I am a passenger on the spaceship Earth.
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I’m not trying to copy Nature, I’m trying to find the principles she’s using.
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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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Mistakes are great, the more I make the smarter I get.
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Real wealth is ideas plus energy.
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Everyone is born a genius, but the process of living de-geniuses them.
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Pollution is merely a resource that isn’t being used properly.
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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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All sports are time control demonstrations.
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Only our minds are able to discover the generalized principles operating without exception in each and every special-experience case which if detected and mastered will give knowledgeable advantage in all instances.
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The purpose of our lives is to add value to the people of this generation and those that follow.
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Whether humanity is to comprehensively prosper…depends entirely on the integrity of the human individuals and not on the political and economic systems. The cosmic question has been asked: are humans worthwhile to universe invention?
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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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