Whether humanity is to comprehensively prosper…depends entirely on the integrity of the human individuals and not on the political and economic systems. The cosmic question has been asked: are humans worthwhile to universe invention?
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERSome of us are just less damaged than others.
More R. Buckminster Fuller Quotes
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I’m not trying to counsel any of you to do anything really special except dare to think. And to dare to go with the truth. And to dare to really love completely.
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The opposite of nature is impossible.
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Only our minds are able to discover the generalized principles operating without exception in each and every special-experience case which if detected and mastered will give knowledgeable advantage in all instances.
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I look for what needs to be done
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The true business of people should be to go back to school and think about whatever it was they were thinking about before somebody came along and told them they had to earn a living.
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If we design the environment properly It will permit both child and adult to develop safely And to behave logically.
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You can’t learn less.
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It is new design by architects versus world revolution by political leadership.
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Every time man makes a new experiment he always learns more. He cannot learn less.
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My ideas have undergone a process of emergence by emergency. When they are needed badly enough, they are accepted.
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The explicable requires the inexplicable. Experience requires the nonexperienceable. The obvious requires the mystical.
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It is essential to release humanity from the false fixations of yesterday which seem now to bind it to a rationale of action leading only to extinction.
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All sports are time control demonstrations.
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There will come a time when the proper education of children, by a glorified system of spontaneous education of choice, similar to the Montessori System, will be made possible.
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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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We are powerfully imprisoned in these Dark Ages simply by the terms in which we have been conditioned to think.
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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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I am convinced all of humanity is born with more gifts than we know. Most are born geniuses and just get de-geniused rapidly.
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Wealth is a measure of a person’s ability to survive so many days forward.
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A problem adequately stated is a problem well on its way to being solved.
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How often I found where I should be going only by setting out for somewhere else.
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Each one of us has something to contribute. This really depends on each one doing their own thinking, but not following any kind of rule.
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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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The most important part about tomorrow is not the technology or the automation, but that man is going to come into entirely new relationships with his fellow men.
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Geodesic spheres demonstrate the compressionally discontinuous–tensionally continuous integrity. Ecology is tensegrity geodesic spherical programming.
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All of humanity now has the option to “make it” successfully and sustainably, by virtue of our having minds, discovering principles and being able to employ these principles to do more with less.
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