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Buckminster Fuller quotes - page 3
War is the ultimate tool of politics.
Buckminster Fuller
Dictators never invent their own opportunities.
Buckminster Fuller
Man knows so much and does so little.
Buckminster Fuller
To ask a politician to lead us is to ask the tail of a dog to lead the dog.
Buckminster Fuller
Whether it is to be Utopia or Oblivion will be a touch-and-go relay race right up to the final moment.... Humanity is in 'final exam' as to whether or not it qualifies for continuance in Universe.
Buckminster Fuller
The World has become too dangerous for anything less than Utopia.
Buckminster Fuller
Are you spontaneously enthusiastic about everyone having everything you can have?
Buckminster Fuller
Truth is cosmically total: synergetic. Verities are generalized principles stated in semimetaphorical terms. Verities are differentiable. But love is omniembracing, omnicoherent, and omni-inclusive, with no exceptions. Love, like synergetics, is nondifferentiable, i.e., is integral.
Buckminster Fuller
The question of integrity will get finer and finer and more delicate and more beautiful.
Buckminster Fuller
The word generalization in literature usually means covering too much territory too thinly to be persuasive, let alone convincing. In science, however, a generalization means a principle that has been found to hold true in every special case.... The principle of leverage is a scientific generalization.
Buckminster Fuller
Universe is synergetic. Life is synergetic.
Buckminster Fuller
Those who play with the devil's toys will be brought by degrees to wield his sword.
Buckminster Fuller
Either war is obsolete, or men are.
Buckminster Fuller
How often I found where I should be going only by setting out for somewhere else.
Buckminster Fuller
I'm not a genius. I'm just a tremendous bundle of experience.
Buckminster Fuller
Parents are usually more careful to bestow knowledge on their children rather than virtue, the art of speaking well rather than doing well; but their manners should be of the greatest concern.
Buckminster Fuller
Synergy means behavior of whole systems unpredicted by the behavior of their parts.
Buckminster Fuller
Integrity is the essence of everything successful.
Buckminster Fuller
When I am working on a problem, I never think about beauty but when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
Buckminster Fuller
A proverb is much matter distilled into few words.
Buckminster Fuller
There are no solids. There are no things. There are only interfering and non-interfering patterns operative in pure principle, and principles are eternal.
Buckminster Fuller
What has not been clear is that the potential of this emergency-born technology has always accrued to human's prewar individual initiatives taken in a humble but irrepressible progression of assumptions, measurements, deductions, and codifications of pure science.
Buckminster Fuller
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