Buckminster Fuller quotes

Humanity is acquiring all the right technology for all the wrong reasons. (Buckminster Fuller)
Love is metaphysical gravity. View quote
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Don't fight forces, use them. View quote
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There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it's going to be a butterfly. View quote
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Pollution is nothing but the resources we are not harvesting. We allow them to disperse because we've been ignorant of their value. View quote
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You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete. View quote
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Now there is one outstanding important fact regarding spaceship earth, and that is that no instruction book came with it. View quote
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Here is God's purpose - for God, to me, it seems, is a verb not a noun, proper or improper. View quote
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We are called to be architects of the future, not its victims. View quote
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Humanity is now experiencing history's most difficult evolutionary transformation. View quote
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The highest of generalizations is the synergetic integration of truth and love. (Buckminster Fuller)
Quite clearly, our task is predominantly metaphysical, for it is how to get all of humanity to educate itself swiftly enough to generate spontaneous social behaviors that will avoid extinction. View quote
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What humans have spontaneously identified as good and bad - or as positive and negative - are evolutionary complementations in need of more accurate identifications. View quote
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Life is the spirit incarnate in time. View quote
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There is no joy equal to that of being able to work for all humanity and doing what you're doing well. View quote
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Dare to be naive. View quote
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Of course, our failures are a consequence of many factors, but possibly one of the most important is the fact that society operates on the theory that specialization is the key to success, not realizing that specialization precludes comprehensive thinking. View quote
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I look for what needs to be done. After all, that's how the universe designs itself. View quote
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Dear reader, traditional human power structures and their reign of darkness are about to be rendered obsolete. View quote
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The nearest each of us can come to God is by loving the truth. View quote
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All sports are time control demonstrations. (Buckminster Fuller)
We must progress to the stage of doing all the right things for all the right reasons instead of doing all the right things for all the wrong reasons. View quote
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A designer is an emerging synthesis of artist, inventor, mechanic, objective economist and evolutionary strategist. View quote
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Ninety-nine percent of who you are is invisible and untouchable. View quote
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Nature is trying very hard to make us succeed, but nature does not depend on us. We are not the only experiment. View quote
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