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Category: R. Buckminster Fuller

3 December 2020 R. Buckminster Fuller

I look for what needs to be done. After all, that’s how the universe designs itself.

3 December 2020 R. 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.

3 December 2020 R. Buckminster Fuller

There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it’s going to be a butterfly.

3 December 2020 R. Buckminster Fuller

We are called to be architects of the future, not its victims.

3 December 2020 R. Buckminster Fuller

Pollution is nothing but the resources we are not harvesting. We allow them to disperse because we’ve been ignorant of their value.

3 December 2020 R. Buckminster Fuller

Nature is trying very hard to make us succeed, but nature does not depend on us. We are not the only experiment.

3 December 2020 R. Buckminster Fuller

War is the ultimate tool of politics.

3 December 2020 R. Buckminster Fuller

Either war is obsolete, or men are.

3 December 2020 R. Buckminster Fuller

Let architects sing of aesthetics that bring Rich clients in hordes to their knees Just give me a home, in a great circle dome Where stresses and strains are at ease.

3 December 2020 R. Buckminster Fuller

Love is metaphysical gravity.

3 December 2020 R. Buckminster Fuller

Truth is a tendency.

3 December 2020 R. Buckminster Fuller

The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun.

3 December 2020 R. Buckminster Fuller

Humanity is acquiring all the right technology for all the wrong reasons.

3 December 2020 R. Buckminster Fuller

Great nations are simply the operating fronts of behind-the-scenes, vastly ambitious individuals who had become so effectively powerful because of their ability to remain invisible while operating behind the national scenery.

3 December 2020 R. Buckminster Fuller

By 2000, politics will simply fade away. We will not see any political parties.

3 December 2020 R. Buckminster Fuller

Faith is much better than belief. Belief is when someone else does the thinking.

3 December 2020 R. Buckminster Fuller

I’m not a genius. I’m just a tremendous bundle of experience.

3 December 2020 R. Buckminster Fuller

Sometimes I think we’re alone. Sometimes I think we’re not. In either case, the thought is staggering.

3 December 2020 R. Buckminster Fuller

God, to me, it seems, is a verb not a noun, proper or improper.

3 December 2020 R. Buckminster Fuller

I just invent, then wait until man comes around to needing what I’ve invented.

3 December 2020 R. 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.

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