Doing the right things for the wrong reasons is typical of humanity. Precession – not conscious planning – provides a productive outcome for misguided political and military campaigns.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERDoing the right things for the wrong reasons is typical of humanity. Precession – not conscious planning – provides a productive outcome for misguided political and military campaigns.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERHuman beings were given a left foot and a right foot to make a mistake first to the left, then to the right, left again and repeat.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERNo man can prove upon awakening that he is the man who he thinks went to bed the night before, or that anything that he recollects is anything other than a convincing dream.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERUniverse is plural at minimum sixfold.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERIf you change the environment, you change the people.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERDwell not too long upon sports: for as they refresh a man that is weary, so they weary a man that is refreshed.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERUniverse is the aggregate of all humanity’s consciously apprehended and communicated nonsimultaneous and only partially overlapping experiences.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLEREach one of us has something to contribute. This really depends on each one doing their own thinking, but not following any kind of rule.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERI am a passenger on the spaceship Earth.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERWe must do away with the absolutely specious notion that everybody has to earn a living.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERIt is one of the strange facts of experience that when we try to think about the future, our thoughts jump backwards. It may well be that nature has some fundamental metaphysical law by which opening up what we call the future also opens up the past in equal degree.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERRight now I am a passenger on space vehicle Earth zooming about the Sun at 60,000 miles per hour somewhere in the solar system.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERIf you want to teach people a new way of thinking, don’t bother trying to teach them. Instead, give them a tool, the use of which will lead to new ways of thinking.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERWe should stop kidding ourselves. We should let go of things that aren’t true. It’s always better with the truth.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERThe World has become too dangerous for anything less than Utopia.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERThe highest of generalizations is the synergetic integration of truth and love.
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