We should stop kidding ourselves. We should let go of things that aren’t true. It’s always better with the truth.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERDon’t attempt to reform man. An adequately organized environment will permit humanity’s original, innate capabilities to become successful.
More R. Buckminster Fuller Quotes
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Whenever I draw a circle, I immediately want to step out of it.
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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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Controlled time is our true wealth.
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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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Instead, humans will spontaneously take upon themselves those tasks that world society really needs to have done.
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Take the initiative. Go to work, and above all co-operate and don’t hold back on one another or try to gain at the expense of another. Any success in such lopsidedness will be increasingly short-lived.
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It is well known that of every strong woman they say she has a masculine mind.
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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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Human beings are the only creatures on the planet that tell time and think they have to earn a living.
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In order for a world-around democracy to prosper, world society must learn how to prosper.
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What usually happens in the educational process is that the faculties are dulled, overloaded, stuffed and paralyzed so that by the time most people are mature they have lost their innate capabilities.
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Think of it. We are blessed with technology that would be indescribable to our forefathers. We have the wherewithal, the know-it-all to feed everybody, clothe everybody, and give every human on Earth a chance.
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We were deliberately designed to learn only by trial and error. We’re brought up, unfortunately, to think that nobody should make mistakes.
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We will always have war until there is enough of every essential to support all lives everywhere around earth.
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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?
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