I do not look upon human beings as good or bad.
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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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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Does humanity have a chance to survive lastingly and successfully on planet Earth, and if so, how?
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A problem adequately stated is a problem well on its way to being solved.
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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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History’s political and economic power structures have always abhorred ‘idle people’ as potential troublemakers. Yet nature never abhors seemingly idle trees, grass, snails, coral reefs, and clouds in the sky.
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Love is omni-inclusive, progressively exquisite, understanding and compassionately attuned to other than self.
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We should stop kidding ourselves. We should let go of things that aren’t true. It’s always better with the truth.
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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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Every child has an enormous drive to demonstrate competence.
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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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Spaceship Earth was so extraordinarily well invented and designed that to our knowledge humans have been on board it for two million years not even knowing that they were on board a ship.
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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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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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One of humanity’s prime drives is to understand and be understood. All other living creatures are designed for highly specialized tasks. Man seems unique as the comprehensive comprehender and co-ordinator of local universe affairs.
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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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