Don’t try to make me consistent. I am learning all the time.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERBrain deals exclusively with the physical, and mind exclusively with the metaphysical.
More R. Buckminster Fuller Quotes
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You do not belong to you. You belong to the universe. The significance of you will remain forever obscure to you, but you may assume you are fulfilling your significance if you apply yourself to converting all you experience to highest advantage to others.
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The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun.
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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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How often I found where I should be going only by setting out for somewhere else.
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Bite your tongue. Get a cinder in your eye. When you feel good, you feel nothing.
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Nature is all that we think we know plus all that we don’t know whether or not we know that we don’t know it.
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I look for what needs to be done
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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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[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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To expose a 4.2 Trillion dollar ripoff of the American people by the stockholders of the 1000 largest corporations over the last one-hundred years will be a tall order of business.
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Ninety-nine percent of humanity does not know that we have the option to “make it” economically on this planet and in the Universe. We do.
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We were deliberately designed to learn only by trial and error. We’re brought up, unfortunately, to think that nobody should make mistakes.
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We are prisoners of our own metaphors, metaphorically speaking.
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Quite clearly, our task is predominantly metaphysical, for it is how to get all of humanity to educate itself swiftly enough to generate spontaneous social behaviors that will avoid extinction.
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I set about fifty-five years ago (1927) to see what a penniless, unknown human individual with a dependent wife and newborn child might be able to do effectively on behalf of all humanity
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