Mind is the antithesis of reflex, and only mind could discover mind
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERThese 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 joy equal to that of being able to work for all humanity and doing what you’re doing well.
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The one common experience of all humanity is the challenge of problems.
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It is well known that of every strong woman they say she has a masculine mind.
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All are intractably skeptical of what they do not understand. We are powerfully imprisoned in these Dark Ages simply by the terms in which we have been conditioned to think.
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And we take away from all the industrial countries all their ideologies and all the politicians and political machine workers, people would keep right on eating. Possibly getting on a little better than before.
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Search others for their virtue, and yourself for your vices.
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Seeing-is-believing is a blind spot in man’s vision.
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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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The World has become too dangerous for anything less than Utopia.
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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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You can’t better the world by simply talking to it. Philosophy to be effective must be mechanically applied.
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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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All children are born geniuses, and we spend the first six years of their lives degeniusing them.
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It is the consensus of great scientists that science is the attempt to set in order the facts of experience.
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The procedure we are pursuing is that of true democracy. Semi-democracy accepts the dictatorship of a majority in establishing its arbitrary, ergo, unnatural, laws.
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