Man knows so much and does so little.
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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Whether it is to be Utopia or Oblivion will be a touch-and-go relay race right up to the final moment…. Humanity is in ‘final exam’ as to whether or not it qualifies for continuance in Universe.
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War is the ultimate tool of politics.
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The wave is not the water. The water merely told us about the wave moving by.
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You can’t learn less.
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We are most probably here for local information-gathering and local-Universe problem-solving in support of the integrity of eternally regenerative Universe.
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on first priority in design consideration is the full realization of individual potential in order to reach the second derivative full realization for all individuals
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Either war is obsolete, or men are.
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We are in an age that assumes the narrowing trends of specialization to be logical, natural, and desirable. Consequently, society expects all earnestly responsible communication to be crisply brief…. In the meantime, humanity has been deprived of comprehensive understanding.
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[A]ll the categories of creatures act individually as special-case and may be linearly analyzed; retrospectively, it is discoverable that inadvertently they are all interaffecting one another synergetically as a spherical, interprecessionally regenerative, tensegrity spherical integrity.
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How much does your building weigh? A question often used to challenge architects to consider how efficiently materials were used for the space enclosed.
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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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If success or failure of this planet and of human beings depended on how I am and what I do… HOW WOULD I BE? WHAT WOULD I DO?
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True democracy discovers by patient experiment and unanimous acknowledgement what the laws of nature or universe may be for the physical support and metaphysical satisfaction of the human intellect’s function in universe.
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We speak erroneously of “artificial” materials, “synthetics”, and so forth. The basis for this erroneous terminology is the notion that Nature has made certain things which we call natural, and everything else is “man-made”, ergo artificial.
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There is something patently insane about all the typewriters sleeping with all the beautiful plumbing in the beautiful office buildings -and all the people sleeping in the slums.
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Gold and silver from the dead turn often into lead.
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The most important thing about Spaceship Earth – an instruction book didn’t come with it.
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Technologically we now have four [seven!] billion billionaires on board Spaceship Earth who are entirely unaware of their good fortune.
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Wealth is the product of energy times intelligence: energy turned into artifacts that advantage human life.
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Tombs are the clothes of the dead and a grave is a plain suit; while an expensive monument is one with embroidery.
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Those who play with the devil’s toys will be brought by degrees to wield his sword.
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We are prisoners of our own metaphors, metaphorically speaking.
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Search others for their virtue, and yourself for your vices.
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Don’t change the man. Change his environment.
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The individual can take initiatives without anybody’s permission. Only individuals can think. Only the individual disregards his fears and commits himself exclusively to reforming the human environment.
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Pollution is merely a resource that isn’t being used properly.
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