The procedure we are pursuing is that of true democracy. Semi-democracy accepts the dictatorship of a majority in establishing its arbitrary, ergo, unnatural, laws.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERI live on Earth at present, and I don’t know what I am. I know that I am not a category. I am not a thing – a noun. I seem to be a verb, an evolutionary process – an integral function of the universe.
More R. Buckminster Fuller Quotes
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Universe is the aggregate of all humanity’s consciously apprehended and communicated nonsimultaneous and only partially overlapping experiences.
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I have great hope for tomorrow. My hope lies in three things-truth, youth, and love.
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We are powerfully imprisoned in these Dark Ages simply by the terms in which we have been conditioned to think.
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…primarily the individual is going to study at home.
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Coping with the totality of Spaceship Earth and universe is ahead for all of us.
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Children are born true scientists. They spontaneously experiment and experience and reexperience again. They select, combine, and test, seeking to find order in their experiences – “which is the mostest? which is the leastest?”
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Human beings are the only creatures on the planet that tell time and think they have to earn a living.
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Integrity is the essence of everything successful.
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Search others for their virtue, and yourself for your vices.
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I look for what needs to be done
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If you want to teach people a new way of thinking, don’t bother trying to teach them. Instead, give them a tool, the use of which will lead to new ways of thinking.
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To ask a politician to lead us is to ask the tail of a dog to lead the dog.
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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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Rashness is the faithful, but unhappy parent of misfortune.
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You can rest assured that if you devote your time and attention to the highest advantage of others, the Universe will support you, always and only in the nick of time.
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