Above all, I am motivated by the most mysterious drive we ever experience -that of love – I don’t think there’s any influence on my life that compares with love.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERTombs are the clothes of the dead and a grave is a plain suit; while an expensive monument is one with embroidery.
More R. Buckminster Fuller Quotes
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Humanity is now experiencing history’s most difficult evolutionary transformation.
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All of humanity now has the option to “make it” successfully and sustainably, by virtue of our having minds, discovering principles and being able to employ these principles to do more with less.
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God is a verb, not a noun.
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Children are born true scientists. They spontaneously experiment and experience and reexperience again. They select, combine, and test, seeking to find order in their experiences – “which is the mostest? which is the leastest?”
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There will come a time when the proper education of children, by a glorified system of spontaneous education of choice, similar to the Montessori System, will be made possible.
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Life is the spirit incarnate in time.
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Right now I am a passenger on space vehicle Earth zooming about the Sun at 60,000 miles per hour somewhere in the solar system.
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The true business of people should be to go back to school and think about whatever it was they were thinking about before somebody came along and told them they had to earn a living.
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My ideas have undergone a process of emergence by emergency. When they are needed badly enough, they are accepted.
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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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Man knows so much and does so little.
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Human beings are the only creatures on the planet that tell time and think they have to earn a living.
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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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There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it’s going to be a butterfly.
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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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