Buckminster Fuller Short Quotes

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Don't fight forces; use them.

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Change the environment; do not try to change man.

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Scientific discovery is invention, and vice versa.

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Thinking is a momentary dismissal of irrelevancies.

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

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The nearest each of us can come to God is by loving the truth.

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The Universe consists of non-simultaneously apprehended events.

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I find people only listen to you when they ask you to talk to them.

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A problem adequately stated is a problem well on its way to being solved.

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The wellspring of reality is the family of weightless generalized principles.

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It is well known that of every strong woman they say she has a masculine mind.

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The highest of generalizations is the synergetic integration of truth and love.

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Are you spontaneously enthusiastic about everyone having everything you can have?

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Humanity is now experiencing history's most difficult evolutionary transformation.

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I call intuition cosmic fishing. You feel a nibble, then you've got to hook the fish.

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The question of integrity will get finer and finer and more delicate and more beautiful.

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Here is God's purpose –
for God, to me, it seems,
is a verb
not a noun,
proper or improper.

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All children are born geniuses, and we spend the first six years of their lives degeniusing them.

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Synergy means behavior of whole systems unpredicted by the behavior of their parts taken separately.

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Ideas are easy to come by; reduction to practice is an arduous but inspirationally rewarding matter.

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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.

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You have to decide whether you want to make money or make sense, because the two are mutually exclusive.

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Universe to each must be All that is, including me. Environment in turn must be All that is, excepting me.

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

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I was convinced in 1927 that humanity's most fundamental survival problems could never be solved by politics.

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You can't better the world by simply talking to it. Philosophy
to be effective must be mechanically applied.

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Dear reader, traditional human power structures and their reign of darkness are about to be rendered obsolete.

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If we design the environment properly, it will permit child and man to develop safely and to behave logically.

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For at least two million years men have been reproducing and multiplying on a little automated Spaceship Earth.

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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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