God is a verb, not a noun.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERWe were deliberately designed to learn only by trial and error. We’re brought up, unfortunately, to think that nobody should make mistakes.
More R. Buckminster Fuller Quotes
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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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Coping with the totality of Spaceship Earth and universe is ahead for all of us.
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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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I say that radiation is inherently disintegrative: it comes apart. Gravity is inherently integrative: it pulls together. And to me, there’s a good possibility that love is what I’d call metaphysical gravity. It really holds everything together.
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I live on Earth at present, and I don’t know what I am. I know that I am not a category. I am not a thing – a noun. I seem to be a verb, an evolutionary process – an integral function of the universe.
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For man to go from less than 1% haves to 40%, living at high standard – despite decreasing resources – cannot be explained by anything other than by doing more than less.
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…primarily the individual is going to study at home.
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Man knows so much and does so little.
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Realizing the direct competition with foreign industry on a straight labor basis will mean swiftly decreasing wages per hour and longer hours and decreasing buying power of the public.
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It is not for me to change you. The question is, how can I be of service to you without diminishing your degrees of freedom?
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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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Every time man makes a new experiment he always learns more. He cannot learn less.
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The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun.
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Love is omni-inclusive, progressively exquisite, understanding and compassionately attuned to other than self.
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Pollution is nothing but resources we’re not harvesting.
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