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.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERThere 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.
More R. Buckminster Fuller Quotes
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The wave is not the water. The water merely told us about the wave moving by.
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Dwell not too long upon sports: for as they refresh a man that is weary, so they weary a man that is refreshed.
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Integrity is the courage and self-discipline to cooperate and initiate according to the Divine, which you know in your heart as Truth.
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Initiative can neither be created nor delegated. It can only spring from the self-determining individual, who decides that the wisdom of others is not always better than his own.
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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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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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It is essential that anyone reading this book know at the outset that the author is apolitical. I was convinced in 1927 that humanity’s most fundamental survival problems could never be solved by politics.
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Seeing-is-believing is a blind spot in man’s vision.
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It is well known that of every strong woman they say she has a masculine mind.
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There is no joy equal to that of being able to work for all humanity and doing what you’re doing well.
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Man is going to be displaced altogether as a specialist by the computer. Man himself is being forced to reestablish, employ, and enjoy his innate ‘comprehensivity.
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Everyone is born a genius, but the process of living de-geniuses them.
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The question of integrity will get finer and finer and more delicate and more beautiful.
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…primarily the individual is going to study at home.
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We must do away with the absolutely specious notion that everybody has to earn a living.
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