Only our minds are able to discover the generalized principles operating without exception in each and every special-experience case which if detected and mastered will give knowledgeable advantage in all instances.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERDegrees of accuracy are only degrees of refinement and magnitude in no way affects the fundamental reliability, which refers, as directional or angular sense, toward centralized truths. Truth is a relationship.
More R. Buckminster Fuller Quotes
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The question of integrity will get finer and finer and more delicate and more beautiful.
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I am deeply impressed with the designer of the universe; I am confident I couldnt have done anywhere near such a good job.
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If you change the environment, you change the people.
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All their political leaders, and all their political organizations, and I can tell you that within six months, two billion people will die of starvation, having gone through great pain and deprivation along the way.
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Bite your tongue. Get a cinder in your eye. When you feel good, you feel nothing.
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The earth is like a spaceship that didn’t come with an operating manual.
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These 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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To ask a politician to lead us is to ask the tail of a dog to lead the dog.
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We are prisoners of our own metaphors, metaphorically speaking.
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We will always have war until there is enough of every essential to support all lives everywhere around earth.
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I say that radiation is inherently disintegrative: it comes apart. Gravity is inherently integrative: it pulls together. And to me, there’s a good possibility that love is what I’d call metaphysical gravity. It really holds everything together.
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What usually happens in the educational process is that the faculties are dulled, overloaded, stuffed and paralyzed so that by the time most people are mature they have lost their innate capabilities.
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Real wealth is ideas plus energy.
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There is enough for everyone. People think that there isn’t enough, so they get as much as they can, so many people don’t have enough.
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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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