And this is not a matter of an examination of the types of governments, nothing to do with politics, nothing to do with economic systems. It has to do with the individual. Does the individual have the courage to really go along with the truth?
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERWe must progress to the stage of doing all the right things for all the right reasons instead of doing all the right things for all the wrong reasons.
More R. Buckminster Fuller Quotes
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The highest of generalizations is the synergetic integration of truth and love.
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Think of it. We are blessed with technology that would be indescribable to our forefathers. We have the wherewithal, the know-it-all to feed everybody, clothe everybody, and give every human on Earth a chance.
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Geodesic spheres demonstrate the compressionally discontinuous–tensionally continuous integrity. Ecology is tensegrity geodesic spherical programming.
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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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Don’t change the man. Change his environment.
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For man to go from less than 1% haves to 40%, living at high standard – despite decreasing resources – cannot be explained by anything other than by doing more than less.
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I have great hope for tomorrow. My hope lies in three things-truth, youth, and love.
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We should stop kidding ourselves. We should let go of things that aren’t true. It’s always better with the truth.
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It is well known that of every strong woman they say she has a masculine mind.
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We were deliberately designed to learn only by trial and error. We’re brought up, unfortunately, to think that nobody should make mistakes.
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Too much overcharges Nature, and turns more into disease than nourishment. ‘Tis thought and digestion which makes books serviceable, and give health and vigor to the 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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If 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.
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Life is the spirit incarnate in time.
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It is not for me to change you. The question is, how can I be of service to you without diminishing your degrees of freedom?
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