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.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERHe will retain much more in his everyday life of what we term the naïveté and idealism of the child. I think the way to see what tomorrow is going to look like is just to look at our children.
More R. Buckminster Fuller Quotes
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Mind is the antithesis of reflex, and only mind could discover mind
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The reward for being a good problem solver is to be heaped with more and more difficult problems to solve
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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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Every child has an enormous drive to demonstrate competence.
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Either war is obsolete, or men are.
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Wealth is a measure of a person’s ability to survive so many days forward.
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Corollary to this we find that we no sooner get a problem solved than we are overwhelmed with a multiplicity of additional problems in a most beautiful payoff of heretofore unknown, previously unrecognized, & as-yet unsolved problems.
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We must do away with the absolutely specious notion that everybody has to earn a living.
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Search others for their virtue, and yourself for your vices.
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The wave is not the water. The water merely told us about the wave moving by.
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People never leave a sinking ship until they see the lights of another ship approaching.
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No 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.
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We are powerfully imprisoned in these Dark Ages simply by the terms in which we have been conditioned to think.
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If humans are not required to earn a living to be provided survival needs, many are going to want very much to be productive, but not at those tasks they did not choose to do but were forced to accept in order to earn money.
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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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