I am convinced all of humanity is born with more gifts than we know. Most are born geniuses and just get de-geniused rapidly.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERI am convinced all of humanity is born with more gifts than we know. Most are born geniuses and just get de-geniused rapidly.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERMan knows so much and does so little.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERHowever, if we leave the industrial machinery and their energy-distribution networks and leave them also all the people who have routine jobs operating the industrial machinery and distributing its products.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERAll children are born geniuses; 9,999 out of every 10,000 are swiftly, inadvertently degeniusized by grownups.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERI do not look upon human beings as good or bad.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERAll children are born geniuses, and we spend the first six years of their lives degeniusing them.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERA problem adequately stated is a problem well on its way to being solved.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERSearch others for their virtue, and yourself for your vices.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERWhether it is to be Utopia or Oblivion will be a touch-and-go relay race right up to the final moment…. Humanity is in ‘final exam’ as to whether or not it qualifies for continuance in Universe.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLEREach one of us has something to contribute. This really depends on each one doing their own thinking, but not following any kind of rule.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERThese are the synergetic rules that evolution is employing and trying to make clear to us. They are not man-made laws. They are the infinitely accommodative laws of the intellectual integrity governing universe.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERTechnologically we now have four [seven!] billion billionaires on board Spaceship Earth who are entirely unaware of their good fortune.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERIt 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.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERMistakes are great, the more I make the smarter I get.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERTombs are the clothes of the dead and a grave is a plain suit; while an expensive monument is one with embroidery.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERYou can’t better the world by simply talking to it. Philosophy to be effective must be mechanically applied.
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