We should stop kidding ourselves. We should let go of things that aren’t true. It’s always better with the truth.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERRashness is the faithful, but unhappy parent of misfortune.
More R. Buckminster Fuller Quotes
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[My vision is] To make the world work for 100% of humanity in the shortest possible time through spontaneous cooperation without ecological offense or the disadvantage of anyone.
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In order for a world-around democracy to prosper, world society must learn how to prosper.
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No man can prove upon awakening that he is the man who he thinks went to bed the night before, or that anything that he recollects is anything other than a convincing dream.
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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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I look for what needs to be done. After all, that’s how the universe designs itself.
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Man knows so much and does so little.
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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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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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If humanity does not opt for integrity we are through completely. It is absolutely touch and go. Each one of us could make the difference.
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We are prisoners of our own metaphors, metaphorically speaking.
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I’m not a genius. I’m just a tremendous bundle of experience.
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Every time man makes a new experiment he always learns more. He cannot learn less.
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Pollution is nothing but the resources we are not harvesting. We allow them to disperse because we’ve been ignorant of their value.
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The Universe consists of non-simultaneously apprehended events.
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You can’t learn less.
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