We live in a decaying age. Young people no longer respect their parents. They are rude and impatient. They frequently inhabit taverns and have no self control.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERArchitects, if they are really to be comprehensive, must assume the enormous task of thinking in terms always disciplined to the scale of the total world pattern of needs, its resource flows, its recirculatory and regenerative processes.
More R. Buckminster Fuller Quotes
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The World has become too dangerous for anything less than Utopia.
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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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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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Universe is plural at minimum sixfold.
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Dwell not too long upon sports: for as they refresh a man that is weary, so they weary a man that is refreshed.
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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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I have great hope for tomorrow. My hope lies in three things-truth, youth, and love.
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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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The Universe consists of non-simultaneously apprehended events.
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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.
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I’m not trying to counsel any of you to do anything really special except dare to think. And to dare to go with the truth. And to dare to really love completely.
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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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I’m not a genius. I’m just a tremendous bundle of experience.
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Seeing-is-believing is a blind spot in man’s vision.
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You don’t belong to you. You belong to the Universe and you’re here to serve.
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