R. Buckminster Fuller Quotes - Page 4

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

All human advances occur in the outlaw area.

I live on Earth at present, and I don’t know what I am. I know that I am not a category. I am not a thing — a noun. I seem to be a verb, an evolutionary process – an integral function of the universe.

There is enough for everyone. People think that there isn't enough, so they get as much as they can, so many people don't have enough.

Either man is obsolete or war is. War is the ultimate tool of politics. Political leaders look out only for their own side. Politicians are always realistically maneuvering for the next election. They are obsolete as fundamental problem-solvers.

I'm utterly convinced that we are all here for one another and that every experience that everyone is having is relevant. It all counts. The Universe is so extraordinarily well designed that it needs all those experiences.

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

We are in an age that assumes the narrowing trends of specialization to be logical, natural, and desirable. Consequently, society expects all earnestly responsible communication to be crisply brief.... In the meantime, humanity has been deprived of comprehensive understanding.

You don't belong to you. You belong to the Universe and you're here to serve.

Everything we see is inside our own heads.

The World has become too dangerous for anything less than Utopia.

I'm not trying to counsel any of you to do anything really special except dare to think. And to dare to go with the truth. And to dare to really love completely.

... reform the environment and not man; being absolutely confident that if you give man the right environment, he will behave favorably.

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

How often I found where I should be going only by setting out for somewhere else.

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

I am enthusiastic over humanity’s extraordinary and sometimes very timely ingenuity. If you are in a shipwreck and all the boats are gone, a piano top buoyant enough to keep you afloat that comes along makes a fortuitous life preserver. But this is not to say that the best way to design a life preserver is in the form of a piano top. I think that we are clinging to a great many piano tops in accepting yesterday’s fortuitous contrivings as constituting the only means for solving a given problem.

Humanity has the option to become successful on our planet if we reorient world production away from weaponry - from killingry to livingry. Can we convince humanity in time?

We must do away with the absolutely specious notion that everybody has to earn a living.

The opposite of nature is impossible.

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.

Human beings are the only creatures on the planet that tell time and think they have to earn a living.

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

If success or failure of this planet and of human beings depended on how I am and what I do... HOW WOULD I BE? WHAT WOULD I DO?

None of the world's problems will have a solution until the world's individuals become thoroughly self-educated.