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.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER… reform the environment and not man; being absolutely confident that if you give man the right environment, he will behave favorably.
More R. Buckminster Fuller Quotes
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It is one of the strange facts of experience that when we try to think about the future, our thoughts jump backwards. It may well be that nature has some fundamental metaphysical law by which opening up what we call the future also opens up the past in equal degree.
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I have great hope for tomorrow. My hope lies in three things-truth, youth, and love.
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Dwell not too long upon sports: for as they refresh a man that is weary, so they weary a man that is refreshed.
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Some of us are just less damaged than others.
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Right now I am a passenger on space vehicle Earth zooming about the Sun at 60,000 miles per hour somewhere in the solar system.
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Seeing-is-believing is a blind spot in man’s vision.
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Everyone is born a genius, but the process of living de-geniuses them.
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… reform the environment and not man; being absolutely confident that if you give man the right environment, he will behave favorably.
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Search others for their virtue, and yourself for your vices.
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There are no solids. There are no things. There are only interfering and non-interfering patterns operative in pure principle, and principles are eternal.
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Gold and silver from the dead turn often into lead.
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Humans beings always do the most intelligent thing…after they’ve tried every stupid alternative and none of them have worked
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Only ten years ago the ‘more with less’ technology reached the point where this could be done. All humanity now has the option to become enduringly successful.
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Pollution is merely a resource that isn’t being used properly.
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We are going to have to find ways of organizing ourselves cooperatively,sanely, scientifically, harmonically and in regenerative spontaneity with the rest of humanity around the earth….
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