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.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERTrue democracy discovers by patient experiment and unanimous acknowledgement what the laws of nature or universe may be for the physical support and metaphysical satisfaction of the human intellect’s function in universe.
More R. Buckminster Fuller Quotes
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How much does your building weigh? A question often used to challenge architects to consider how efficiently materials were used for the space enclosed.
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Love is a metaphysical gravity.
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This will bring out the real you that often gets buried inside a character that has acquired a superficial array of behaviors induced or imposed by others on the individual.
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The word synergy comes from the Greek sin-ergo, meaning, to work together. It describes a mutually supportive atmosphere of trust, where each individual element works towards its own goals, and where the goals may be quite varied.
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A problem adequately stated is a problem well on its way to being solved.
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Pollution is nothing but resources we’re not harvesting.
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The reward for being a good problem solver is to be heaped with more and more difficult problems to solve
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We are here as local information harvesters, local problem-solvers in support of the integrity of eternally regenerative Universe. The fact that we get away from physical problems doesn’t mean we go away from problems. The problems are really rarely physical.
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Bite your tongue. Get a cinder in your eye. When you feel good, you feel nothing.
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It 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.
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Don’t try to make me consistent. I am learning all the time.
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God is a verb, not a noun.
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When individuals join in a cooperative venture, the power generated far exceeds what they could have accomplished acting individually.
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War is the ultimate tool of politics.
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Havenotness is caused by society’s failure to design and produce the right tools and goods. Money alone is not the panacea.
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