If you are the master be sometimes blind, if you are the servant be sometimes deaf.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERWe are prisoners of our own metaphors, metaphorically speaking.
More R. Buckminster Fuller Quotes
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You have to decide whether you want to make money or make sense, because the two are mutually exclusive.
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There are no solids. There are no things. There are only interfering and non-interfering patterns operative in pure principle, and principles are eternal.
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When I am working on a problem, I never think about beauty but when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
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It is one of our most exciting discoveries that local discovery leads to a complex of further discoveries.
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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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Instead, humans will spontaneously take upon themselves those tasks that world society really needs to have done.
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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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It is one of the strange facts of experience that when we try to think about the future, our thoughts jump backwards. It may well be that nature has some fundamental metaphysical law by which opening up what we call the future also opens up the past in equal degree.
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The Things to do are: the things that need doing, that you see need to be done, and that no one else seems to see need to be done.
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If we do more with less, our response will be adequate to take care of everybody.
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You can’t better the world by simply talking to it. Philosophy to be effective must be mechanically applied.
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You cannot change how someone thinks, but you can give them a tool to use which will lead them to think differently.
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Pollution is merely a resource that isn’t being used properly.
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The explicable requires the inexplicable. Experience requires the nonexperienceable. The obvious requires the mystical.
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Love is omni-inclusive, progressively exquisite, understanding and compassionately attuned to other than self.
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