R. Buckminster Fuller Quotes - Page 8

If humanity does not opt for integrity we are through completely. It is absolutely touch and go. Each one of us could make the difference.

I am convinced that creativity is a priori to the integrity of the universe and that life is regenerative and conformity meaningless.

Everything can be linked together in some fashion, in either a physical, psychological, or symbolic manner.

Since the initial publication of the chart of the electromagnetic spectrum, humans have learned that what they can touch, smell, see, and hear is less than one-millionth of reality. Ninety- nine percent of all that is going to affect our tomorrows is being developed by humans using instruments and working in ranges of reality that are nonhumanly sensible.

It is one of the strange facts of experience that when we try to think about the future, our thoughts jump backwards. It may well be that nature has some fundamental metaphysical law by which opening up what we call the future also opens up the past in equal degree.

God is a verb, not a noun.

Brain deals exclusively with the physical, and mind exclusively with the metaphysical.

Love is omni-inclusive, progressively exquisite, understanding and compassionately attuned to other than self.

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

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

However, if we leave the industrial machinery and their energy-distribution networks and leave them also all the people who have routine jobs operating the industrial machinery and distributing its products, and we take away from all the industrial countries all their ideologies and all the politicians and political machine workers, people would keep right on eating. Possibly getting on a little better than before.

Physics has found no straight lines. Instead, the physical universe consists of only waves undulating back and forth allowing for corrections and balance.

You take the senses away, and there is no consciousness. Consciousness comes from experience.

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.

The eternal is omniembracing and permeative; and the temporal is linear. This opens up a very high order of generalizations of generalizations. The truth could not be more omni-important, although it is often manifestly operative only as a linear identification of a special-case experience on a specialized subject.

A new, self-employed architect scientist is the one in all the world who may accelerate realization of a high-standard survival for all, as now completely practical within the scope of available technology.

There is no such thing as genius, some children are just less damaged than others.

I do not look upon human beings as good or bad.

I set about fifty-five years ago (1927) to see what a penniless, unknown human individual with a dependent wife and newborn child might be able to do effectively on behalf of all humanity

All sports are time control demonstrations.

Dwell not too long upon sports: for as they refresh a man that is weary, so they weary a man that is refreshed.

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.

I'm not trying to copy Nature, I'm trying to find the principles she's using.

One of humanity's prime drives is to understand and be understood. All other living creatures are designed for highly specialized tasks. Man seems unique as the comprehensive comprehender and co-ordinator of local universe affairs.

Everything you've learned in school as "obvious" becomes less and less obvious as you begin to study the universe.