We must progress to the stage of doing all the right things for all the right reasons instead of doing all the right things for all the wrong reasons.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERBrain deals exclusively with the physical, and mind exclusively with the metaphysical.
More R. Buckminster Fuller Quotes
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How often I found where I should be going only by setting out for somewhere else.
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The one common experience of all humanity is the challenge of problems.
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We are not going to be able to operate our Spaceship Earth successfully nor for much longer unless we see it as a whole spaceship and our fate as common. It has to be everybody or nobody.
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Brain deals exclusively with the physical, and mind exclusively with the metaphysical.
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[A]ll the categories of creatures act individually as special-case and may be linearly analyzed; retrospectively, it is discoverable that inadvertently they are all interaffecting one another synergetically as a spherical, interprecessionally regenerative, tensegrity spherical integrity.
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Corollary to this we find that we no sooner get a problem solved than we are overwhelmed with a multiplicity of additional problems in a most beautiful payoff of heretofore unknown, previously unrecognized, & as-yet unsolved problems.
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Don’t attempt to reform man. An adequately organized environment will permit humanity’s original, innate capabilities to become successful.
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Man knows so much and does so little.
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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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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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If humans are not required to earn a living to be provided survival needs, many are going to want very much to be productive, but not at those tasks they did not choose to do but were forced to accept in order to earn money.
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The most important thing about Spaceship Earth – an instruction book didn’t come with it.
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I have great hope for tomorrow. My hope lies in three things-truth, youth, and love.
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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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[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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