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The minute you choose to do what you really want to do,
it's a different kind of life. -- R. Buckminster Fuller
We have reached the point where we are now possessed of sufficient information for each individual human to dare to exercise the option to "make it" rather than having to depend on the decisions of an educated elite. -- R. Buckminster Fuller
The dark ages still reign over all humanity, and the depth and persistence of this domination are only now becoming clear. This Dark Ages prison has no steel bars, chains, or locks. Instead, it is locked by misorientation and built of misinformation. -- R. Buckminster Fuller
Of course, our failures are a consequence of many factors, but possibly one of the most important is the fact that society operates on the theory that specialization is the key to success, not realizing that specialization precludes comprehensive thinking. -- R. Buckminster Fuller
It is new design by architects versus world revolution by political leadership. -- R. Buckminster Fuller
It is well known that of every strong woman they say she has a masculine mind. -- R. Buckminster Fuller
For man to go from less than 1% haves to 40%, living at high standard - despite decreasing resources - cannot be explained by anything other than by doing more than less. -- R. Buckminster Fuller
The question of integrity will get finer and finer and more delicate and more beautiful. -- R. Buckminster Fuller
Nature does have manure and she does have roots as well as blossoms, and you can't hate the manure and blame the roots for not being blossoms. -- R. Buckminster Fuller
There is no joy equal to that of being able to work for all humanity and doing what you're doing well. -- R. 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. -- R. Buckminster Fuller
Don't attempt to reform man. An adequately organized environment will permit humanity's original, innate capabilities to become successful. -- R. Buckminster Fuller
Humanity is acquiring all the right technology for all the wrong reasons. -- R. Buckminster Fuller
You can't change the way people think, all you can do is give them a tool, the use of which will change their thinking. -- R. Buckminster Fuller
Whenever I draw a circle, I immediately want to step out of it. -- R. Buckminster Fuller
It is a fact today that one in ten thousand of us can make a technological breakthrough capable of supporting all the rest. -- R. Buckminster Fuller
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. -- R. Buckminster Fuller
What usually happens in the educational process is that the faculties are dulled, overloaded, stuffed and paralyzed so that by the time most people are mature they have lost their innate capabilities. -- R. Buckminster Fuller
I am a passenger on the spaceship Earth. -- R. Buckminster Fuller
It is now highly feasible to take care of everybody on Earth at a higher standard of living than any have ever known. It no longer has to be you or me. Selfishness is unnecessary. War is obsolete. It is a mater of converting the high technology from weaponry to livingry. -- R. Buckminster Fuller
No man can prove upon awakening that he is the man who he thinks went to bed the night before, or that anything that he recollects is anything other than a convincing dream. -- R. Buckminster Fuller
Geniuses are just people who had good mothers. -- R. Buckminster Fuller
The assumption is that the inevitability of a solution's realization is inherent in the interaction of human intellect and the constantly transformative evolution of physical universe. -- R. Buckminster Fuller
The individual can take initiatives without anybody's permission. Only individuals can think. Only the individual disregards his fears and commits himself exclusively to reforming the human environment. -- R. Buckminster Fuller
The self-commissioned architect is the obviously exclusive potential - for as at present used, or designed, the world's resources are serving only forty-four per cent of humanity. -- R. Buckminster Fuller
The minute you begin to do what you really want to do, it's really a different kind of life. -- R. Buckminster Fuller
Above all, I am motivated by the most mysterious drive we ever experience -that of love - I don't think there's any influence on my life that compares with love. -- R. Buckminster Fuller
History's political and economic power structures have always abhorred 'idle people' as potential troublemakers. Yet nature never abhors seemingly idle trees, grass, snails, coral reefs, and clouds in the sky. -- R. Buckminster Fuller
Universe is the aggregate of all humanity's consciously apprehended and communicated nonsimultaneous and only partially overlapping experiences. -- R. Buckminster Fuller
It is essential that anyone reading this book know at the outset that the author is apolitical. I was convinced in 1927 that humanity's most fundamental survival problems could never be solved by politics. -- R. Buckminster Fuller
Windmills installed around the world converting their direct current into alternating current and feeding the electric energy into the world network can harvest the planet Earth's prime daily energy income source-the wind
and adequately supply all the world's energy needs -- R. Buckminster Fuller
Humanity is now experiencing history's most difficult evolutionary transformation. -- R. Buckminster Fuller
Havenotness is caused by society's failure to design and produce the right tools and goods. Money alone is not the panacea. -- R. Buckminster Fuller
My biggest hope that we're going to make it here is that this thinking is being manifested & really employed by the young world. Will they be going fast enough to overcome the initiatives of the bureaucracies & the fears operative in those bureaucracies? It's a very touch & go question. -- R. Buckminster Fuller
Technology paces industry, but there's a long lag in the process. -- R. Buckminster Fuller
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. -- R. Buckminster Fuller
The point is that racism is the product of tribalism and ignorance and both are falling victim to communications and world-around literacy -- R. Buckminster Fuller
When individuals join in a cooperative venture, the power generated far exceeds what they could have accomplished acting individually. -- R. Buckminster Fuller
The one common experience of all humanity is the challenge of problems. -- R. Buckminster Fuller
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 -- R. Buckminster Fuller
Degrees of accuracy are only degrees of refinement and magnitude in no way affects the fundamental reliability, which refers, as directional or angular sense, toward centralized truths.
Truth is a relationship. -- R. Buckminster Fuller
Doing more with less. -- R. Buckminster Fuller
Universe to each must be
All that is, including me.
Environment in turn must be
All that is, excepting me. -- R. Buckminster Fuller
One in ten thousand of us can make a technological breakthrough capable of supporting all the rest. The youth of today are absolutely right in recognizing this nonsense of earning a wage. -- R. Buckminster Fuller
For the first time in history it is now possible to take care of everybody at a higher standard of living than any have ever known. Only ten years ago the 'more with less' technology reached the point where this could be done. All humanity now has the option to become enduringly successful. -- R. Buckminster Fuller
Specialization is in fact only a fancy form of slavery wherein the 'expert' is fooled into accepting a slavery by making him feel that he in turn is a socially and culturally preferred-ergo, highly secure-lifelong position. -- R. Buckminster Fuller
Unchallenged, opinions became respected precedent then exceptionless concepts and sometimes even civil and academically accepted social law. -- R. Buckminster Fuller
Ignorance and greed are part of the evolutionary process, which is just to say that mistakes are part of learning. There is nothing bad about behaviors or perceptions that do not work; they simply have to be given up and replaced by behaviors or perceptions that do work. -- R. Buckminster Fuller
The more for whom we strive to serve, the greater effectiveness we will have. -- R. Buckminster Fuller
You don't belong to you. You belong to the Universe and you're here to serve. -- R. Buckminster Fuller
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. -- R. Buckminster Fuller
Love is metaphysical gravity. -- R. Buckminster Fuller
Initiative can neither be created nor delegated. It can only spring from the self-determining individual, who decides that the wisdom of others is not always better than his own. -- R. Buckminster Fuller
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. -- R. Buckminster Fuller
Our little Spaceship Earth is only eight thousand miles in diameter, which is almost a negligible dimension in the great vastness of space. -- R. Buckminster Fuller
Reform the environment and not man; being absolutely confident that if you give man the right environment, he will behave favorably. -- R. Buckminster Fuller
Either war is obsolete, or men are. -- R. Buckminster Fuller
You never change people by fighting their existing reality. -- R. Buckminster Fuller
People never leave a sinking ship until they see the lights of another ship approaching. -- R. Buckminster Fuller
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. -- R. Buckminster Fuller
Conceptuality is subjective; realization is objective. -- R. 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 -- R. Buckminster Fuller
Now there is one outstandingly important fact regarding Spaceship Earth, and that is that no instruction book came with it. -- R. Buckminster Fuller
Nature is all that we think we know plus all that we don't know whether or not we know that we don't know it. -- 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. -- R. Buckminster Fuller
Gold and silver from the dead turn often into lead. -- R. Buckminster Fuller
The further art advances the closer it approaches science, the further science advances the closer it approaches art. -- R. Buckminster Fuller
That which is communicated, i.e., understood, is metaphysical. The means of communication is physical. -- R. Buckminster Fuller
There is room enough indoors in New York City for the whole 1963 world's population to enter, with room enough inside for all hands to dance the twist in average nightclub proximity. -- 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. -- R. Buckminster Fuller
The highest of generalizations is the synergetic integration of truth and love. -- R. Buckminster Fuller
Education by choice, with its marvelous motivating psychology of desire for truth, will make life ever cleaner and happier, more rhythmical and artistic. -- R. Buckminster Fuller
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. -- R. Buckminster Fuller
Out of my general world-pattern-trend studies there now comes strong evidence that nothing is going to be quite so surprising and abrupt in the future history of man as the forward evolution in the educational process. -- R. Buckminster Fuller
I say that radiation is inherently disintegrative: it comes apart. Gravity is inherently integrative: it pulls together. And to me, there's a good possibility that love is what I'd call metaphysical gravity. It really holds everything together. -- R. 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. -- R. Buckminster Fuller
With our minds alone we can discover those principles we need to employ to convert all humanity to success in a new, harmonious relationship with the universe. -- 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. -- R. Buckminster Fuller
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. -- R. Buckminster Fuller
We live in a decaying age. Young people no longer respect their parents. They are rude and impatient. They frequently inhabit taverns and have no self control. -- R. Buckminster Fuller
Most of my advances were by mistake. You uncover what is when you get rid of what isn't. -- R. Buckminster Fuller
There is no such thing as a failed experiment, only experiments with unexpected outcomes. -- R. Buckminster Fuller
Whether humanity is to comprehensively prosper ... depends entirely on the integrity of the human individuals and not on the political and economic systems. The cosmic question has been asked: are humans worthwhile to universe invention? -- R. Buckminster Fuller
A designer is an emerging synthesis of artist, inventor, mechanic, objective economist and evolutionary strategist. -- R. Buckminster Fuller
You can make money or you can make sense. The two are mutually exclusive. -- R. Buckminster Fuller
You either make sense or you make money. -- R. Buckminster Fuller
If we design the environment properly, it will permit child and man to develop safely and to behave logically. -- R. Buckminster Fuller
I am not optimistic or pessimistic. I feel that optimism and pessimism are very unbalanced. I am a very hard engineer. I am a mechanic. I am a sailor. I am an air pilot. I don't tell people I can get you across the ocean with my ship unless I know what I'm talking about. -- R. Buckminster Fuller
Everything you've learned in school as "obvious" becomes less and less obvious as you begin to study the universe. -- R. Buckminster Fuller
The vector equilibrium is the zero point for
happenings or nonhappenings: it is the empty
theater and empty circus and empty universe
ready to accommodate any act and any audience. -- R. Buckminster Fuller
Synergy is the only word in our language that means behavior of whole systems unpredicted by the separately observed behaviors of any of the system's separate parts or any subassembly of
the system's parts. -- R. Buckminster Fuller
War is obsolete. We are not here to fight something or tear something down; We are here to be the example of what is possible. Any sane individual will tell you that violence is ... not the way ... -- R. Buckminster Fuller
Topology is the science of fundamental pattern and structural relationships of event constellations. -- R. Buckminster Fuller
If I ran a school, I'd give the average grade to the ones who gave me all the right answers, for being good parrots. I'd give the top grades to those who made a lot of mistakes and told me about them, and then told me what they learned from them. -- R. Buckminster Fuller
To expose a 4.2 Trillion dollar ripoff of the American people
by the stockholders of the 1000 largest corporations over the last
one-hundred years will be a tall order of business. -- R. Buckminster Fuller
The impossible happens. -- R. Buckminster Fuller
Truth is the progressive diminution of residual error. -- R. Buckminster Fuller
Specialization breeds biases that ultimately aggregate as international and ideological discord, which, in turn, leads to war. -- R. Buckminster Fuller
We should stop kidding ourselves. We should let go of things that aren't true. It's always better with the truth. -- R. Buckminster Fuller
A problem adequately stated is a problem solved theoretically and immediately, and therefore subsequently to be solved, realistically. -- R. Buckminster Fuller
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. -- R. Buckminster Fuller
I am deeply impressed with the designer of the universe; I am confident I couldnt have done anywhere near such a good job. -- R. Buckminster Fuller
Thou mayest as well expect to grow stronger by always eating as wiser by always reading. Too much overcharges Nature, and turns more into disease than nourishment. 'Tis thought and digestion which makes books serviceable, and give health and vigor to the mind. -- R. Buckminster Fuller
The physical is inherently entropic, giving off energy in ever more disorderly ways. The metaphysical is antientropic, methodically marshalling energy. Life is antientropic. It is spontaneously inquisitive. It sorts out and endeavors to understand -- R. Buckminster Fuller
All sports are time control demonstrations ... -- R. Buckminster Fuller
In order to change an existing paradigm you do not struggle to try and change the problematic model. You create a new model and make the old one obsolete. -- R. Buckminster Fuller
To do more and more with less and less until eventually you can do everything with nothing. -- R. Buckminster Fuller
War is the ultimate tool of politics. -- R. Buckminster Fuller
The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun. -- R. Buckminster Fuller
Our beds are empty two-thirds of the time. Our living rooms are empty seven-eighths of the time. Our office buildings are empty one-half of the time. It's time we gave this some thought. -- R. Buckminster Fuller
Thinking is a momentary dismissal of irrelevancies. -- R. Buckminster Fuller
We must do away with the absolutely specious notion that everybody has to earn a living. -- R. Buckminster Fuller
I call intuition cosmic fishing. You feel a nibble, then you've got to hook the fish. -- R. Buckminster Fuller
Love is omni-inclusive, progressively exquisite, understanding and compassionately attuned to other than self. -- R. Buckminster Fuller
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? -- R. Buckminster Fuller
Mind is the antithesis of reflex, and only mind could discover mind -- R. Buckminster Fuller
Sharing is having more. -- R. Buckminster Fuller
Consisting mostly of recirculating scrapped metals, 80% of all the metals that have ever been mined are still at work. -- R. Buckminster Fuller
Perception is one millionth of one percent reality (truth in fact). -- R. Buckminster Fuller
American labor will realize that its function is not to increase jobs, but to multiply the wealth and to expand the numbers benefited by the wealth at the swiftest possible rate. -- R. Buckminster Fuller
I'm not a genius. I'm just a tremendous bundle of experience. -- R. Buckminster Fuller
Only our minds are able to discover the generalized principles operating without exception in each and every special-experience case which if detected and mastered will give knowledgeable
advantage in all instances. -- R. Buckminster Fuller
You cannot change how someone thinks, but you can give them a tool to use which will lead them to think differently. -- R. Buckminster Fuller
How much does your building weigh?
A question often used to challenge architects to consider how efficiently materials were used for the space enclosed. -- R. Buckminster Fuller
Always tell only the truth, and all the truth, and do so promptly - right now. -- R. Buckminster Fuller
If we dump all the machinery and take the knowledge we have in the ocean within six months humanity will die. If we dump all the politician all around the world in the ocean everything will go along very nicely. -- R. Buckminster Fuller
My ideas have undergone a process of emergence by emergency. When they are needed badly enough, they are accepted. -- R. Buckminster Fuller
None of the world's problems will have a solution until the world's individuals become thoroughly self-educated. -- R. Buckminster Fuller
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. -- R. Buckminster Fuller
By the time you are 88 years old, you "have consumed 300 tons of food, air and water." -- R. Buckminster Fuller
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. -- R. Buckminster Fuller
Doing the right things for the wrong reasons is typical of humanity. Precession - not conscious planning - provides a productive outcome for misguided political and military campaigns. -- R. Buckminster Fuller
For at least 2,000,000 years men have been reproducing and multiplying on a little automated spaceship called earth. -- R. Buckminster Fuller
One can study a caterpillar forever and never be able to predict a butterfly. -- R. Buckminster Fuller
There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it's going to be a butterfly. -- R. Buckminster Fuller
Observation of my life to date shows that the larger the number for whom I work, the more positively effective I become. Thus, it is obvious that if I work always and only for all humanity, I will be optimally effective. -- R. Buckminster Fuller
The pyramids, attached with age, have forgotten the names of their founders. -- R. Buckminster Fuller
Get ready the greatest new educational facility at the approximate dynamic population center of the North American continent -- R. Buckminster Fuller
The synergetic integral of the totality of all principles is God, whose sum-total behavior in pure principle is beyond our comprehension and is utterly mysterious to us, because as humans
in pure principle
we do not and never will know all the principles -- R. Buckminster Fuller
The Things to do are: the things that need doing, that you see need to be done, and that no one else seems to see need to be done. -- R. Buckminster Fuller
Man is going to be displaced altogether as a specialist by the computer. Man himself is being forced to reestablish, employ, and enjoy his innate 'comprehensivity. -- R. Buckminster Fuller
We are called to be architects of the future, not its victims. -- R. Buckminster Fuller
Relativity is inherently convergent, though convergent toward a plurality of centers of abstract truths. -- R. Buckminster Fuller
The most important thing about Spaceship Earth - an instruction book didn't come with it. -- R. Buckminster Fuller
Television is the third parent. -- R. Buckminster Fuller
By 2000, politics will simply fade away. We will not see any political parties. -- R. Buckminster Fuller
I am convinced that creativity is a priori to the integrity of the universe and that life is regenerative and conformity meaningless. -- R. Buckminster Fuller
Controlled time is our true wealth. -- R. Buckminster Fuller
The difference between mind and brain is that brain deals only with memorized, subjective, special-case experiences and objective experiments, while mind extracts and employs the
generalized principles and integrates and interrelates their effective employment. -- R. Buckminster Fuller
If man chooses oblivion, he can go right on leaving his fate to his political leaders. If he chooses Utopia, he must initiate an enormous education program - immediately, if not sooner. -- R. Buckminster Fuller
Right now I am a passenger on space vehicle Earth zooming about the Sun at 60,000 miles per hour somewhere in the solar system. -- R. Buckminster Fuller
You can rest assured that if you devote your time and attention to the highest advantage of others, the Universe will support you, always and only in the nick of time. -- R. Buckminster Fuller
Only the free-wheeling artist-explorer, non-academic, scientist-philosopher, mechanic, economist-poet who has never waited for patron-starting and accrediting of his co-ordinate capabilities holds the prime initiative today. -- R. Buckminster Fuller
All of humanity now has the option to "make it" successfully and sustainably, by virtue of our having minds, discovering principles and being able to employ these principles to do more with less. -- R. Buckminster Fuller
If we do more with less, our response will be adequate to take care of everybody. -- R. Buckminster Fuller
You have to decide whether you want to make money or make sense, because the two are mutually exclusive. -- R. Buckminster Fuller
Universe is plural at minimum sixfold. -- R. Buckminster Fuller
We as economic society are going to have to pay our whole population to go to school and pay it to stay at school. -- R. Buckminster Fuller
Bite your tongue. Get a cinder in your eye. When you feel good, you feel nothing. -- R. Buckminster Fuller
Our brains deal exclusively with special-case experiences. -- R. Buckminster Fuller
Human beings were given a left foot and a right foot to make a mistake first to the left, then to the right, left again and repeat. -- R. Buckminster Fuller
Integrity is the courage and self-discipline to cooperate and initiate according to the Divine, which you know in your heart as Truth. -- R. Buckminster Fuller
A pattern has an integrity independent of the medium by virtue of which you have received the information that it exists. -- R. Buckminster Fuller
Whether we are able to be a complete success or failure is in such critical balance that every smallest human test of integrity every smallest moment-to-moment decision tips the scales affirmatively or negatively. -- 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. -- R. Buckminster Fuller
I look for what needs to be done. After all, that's how the universe designs itself. -- R. Buckminster Fuller
Synergy means behavior of whole systems unpredicted by the behavior of their parts. -- R. Buckminster Fuller
Dare to be naive. -- R. Buckminster Fuller
The reward for being a good problem solver is to be heaped with more and more difficult problems to solve -- R. Buckminster Fuller
Wealth is the product of energy times intelligence: energy turned into artifacts that advantage human life. -- R. Buckminster Fuller
I would say, then, that you are faced with a future in which education is going to be number one amongst the great world industries. -- R. Buckminster Fuller
Coping with the totality of Spaceship Earth and universe is ahead for all of us. -- R. Buckminster Fuller
You can't better the world by simply talking to it. Philosophy
to be effective must be mechanically applied. -- R. Buckminster Fuller
Does humanity have a chance to survive lastingly and successfully on planet Earth, and if so, how? -- R. Buckminster Fuller
I have spent most of my life unlearning things that were proved not to be true -- R. Buckminster Fuller
I must reorganize the environment of man by which then greater numbers of men can prosper. -- R. Buckminster Fuller
In order for a world-around democracy to prosper, world society must learn how to prosper. -- R. Buckminster Fuller
Rashness is the faithful, but unhappy parent of misfortune. -- R. Buckminster Fuller
Life is the spirit incarnate in time. -- R. Buckminster Fuller
How do we make the world work? -- R. Buckminster Fuller
Tombs are the clothes of the dead and a grave is a plain suit; while an expensive monument is one with embroidery. -- 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. -- R. Buckminster Fuller
We are here as local information harvesters, local problem-solvers in support of the integrity of eternally regenerative Universe. The fact that we get away from physical problems doesn't mean we go away from problems. The problems are really rarely physical. -- R. Buckminster Fuller
Architects, if they are really to be comprehensive, must assume the enormous task of thinking in terms always disciplined to the scale of the total world pattern of needs, its resource flows, its recirculatory and regenerative processes. -- R. Buckminster Fuller
Don't fight forces, use them. -- R. Buckminster Fuller
The future is a choice between Utopia and oblivion. -- R. Buckminster Fuller
The nearest each of us can come to God is by loving the truth. -- R. Buckminster Fuller
Sometimes I think we're alone. Sometimes I think we're not. In either case, the thought is staggering. -- R. Buckminster Fuller
The wave is not the water. The water merely told us about the wave moving by. -- R. Buckminster Fuller
Love is a metaphysical gravity. -- R. Buckminster Fuller
There is an effective strategy open to architects. Whereas doctors deal with the interior organisms of man, architects deal with the exterior organisms of man. Architects might join with one another to carry on their work in laboratories as do doctors in anticipatory medicine. -- R. Buckminster Fuller
The true business of people should be to go back to school and think about whatever it was they were thinking about before somebody came along and told them they had to earn a living -- R. Buckminster Fuller
Our power is in our ability to decide. -- R. Buckminster Fuller
Everyone is born a genius, but the process of living de-geniuses them. -- R. Buckminster Fuller
Brain deals exclusively with the physical, and mind exclusively with the metaphysical. -- R. Buckminster Fuller
I just invent, then wait until man comes around to needing what I've invented. -- R. Buckminster Fuller
Dear reader, traditional human power structures and their reign of darkness are about to be rendered obsolete. -- R. Buckminster Fuller
Don't try to make me consistent. I am learning all the time. -- R. Buckminster Fuller
As long as one human being is hungry, the entire human race is hungry. -- R. Buckminster Fuller
All children are born geniuses; 9,999 out of every 10,000 are swiftly, inadvertently degeniusized by grownups. -- R. Buckminster Fuller
God is the great comprehensive a priori integrity of Universe within which human beings find themselves to be operating. -- R. Buckminster Fuller
A fool with a tool still remains a fool. -- R. Buckminster Fuller
His Unique Selling Position was to make the world work for 100% of humanity. -- R. Buckminster Fuller
I have great hope for tomorrow. My hope lies in three things-truth, youth, and love. -- R. Buckminster Fuller
Each one of us has something to contribute. This really depends on each one doing their own thinking, but not following any kind of rule ... -- R. Buckminster Fuller
Humans beings always do the most intelligent thing ... after they've tried every stupid alternative and none of them have worked -- R. Buckminster Fuller
Integrity is the essence of everything successful. -- R. Buckminster Fuller
Selfishness is unnecessary. War is obsolete. -- R. Buckminster Fuller
Whatever humans have learned had to be learned as a consequence only of trial and error experience. Humans have learned only through mistakes. -- R. Buckminster Fuller
By and large, I seem to have made more mistakes than any others of whom I know, but have learned thereby to make ever swifter acknowledgment of the errors and thereafter immediately set about to deal more effectively with the truths disclosed by the acknowledgment of erroneous assumptions. -- R. Buckminster Fuller
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. -- R. Buckminster Fuller
The world is now too dangerous for anything less than utopia. -- 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. -- R. Buckminster Fuller
The earth is like a spaceship that didn't come with an operating manual. -- R. Buckminster Fuller
Seeing-is-believing is a blind spot in man's vision. -- R. Buckminster Fuller
We are prisoners of our own metaphors, metaphorically speaking ... -- R. Buckminster Fuller
Everything we see is inside our own heads. -- R. Buckminster Fuller
Every child has an enormous drive to demonstrate competence. -- R. Buckminster Fuller
Never show unfinished work. -- R. Buckminster Fuller
Real wealth is ideas plus energy. -- R. Buckminster Fuller
You take the senses away, and there is no consciousness. Consciousness comes from experience. -- R. Buckminster Fuller
I do not look upon human beings as good or bad. -- R. Buckminster Fuller
Dwell not too long upon sports: for as they refresh a man that is weary, so they weary a man that is refreshed. -- R. Buckminster Fuller
It is not for me to change you. The question is, how can I be of service to you without diminishing your degrees of freedom? -- R. Buckminster Fuller
Dolphins may well be carrying information as well as functions critical to the regeneration of life upon our planet. -- R. Buckminster Fuller
Pollution is merely a resource that isn't being used properly. -- R. Buckminster Fuller
Man knows so much and does so little. -- R. Buckminster Fuller
Ideas are easy to come by; reduction to practice is an arduous but inspirationally rewarding matter. -- R. Buckminster Fuller
To ask a politician to lead us is to ask the tail of a dog to lead the dog. -- R. Buckminster Fuller
You can't change anything by fighting or resisting it. You change something by making it obsolete through superior methods. -- R. Buckminster Fuller
There is only one revolution tolerable to all men, all societies, all political systems: Revolution by design and invention. -- R. Buckminster Fuller
On first priority in design consideration is the full realization of individual potential in order to reach the second derivative full realization for all individuals -- R. Buckminster Fuller
Humans have always unknowingly affected all Universe by every act and thought they articulate or even consider. -- R. Buckminster Fuller
You can't learn less. -- R. Buckminster Fuller
We are powerfully imprisoned in these Dark Ages simply by the terms in which we have been conditioned to think. -- R. Buckminster Fuller
Everyone is born a genius. -- R. Buckminster Fuller
It is essential to release humanity from the false fixations of yesterday which seem now to bind it to a rationale of action leading only to extinction. -- R. Buckminster Fuller
There is something patently insane about all the typewriters sleeping with all the beautiful plumbing in the beautiful office buildings -and all the people sleeping in the slums. -- R. Buckminster Fuller
Are you spontaneously enthusiastic about everyone having everything you can have? -- R. Buckminster Fuller
There is no such thing as genius, some children are just less damaged than others. -- R. Buckminster Fuller
Some of us are just less damaged than others. -- R. Buckminster Fuller
I am convinced all of humanity is born with more gifts than we know. Most are born geniuses and just get de-geniused rapidly. -- R. Buckminster Fuller
Everyone has the perfect gift to give the world-and if each of us is freed up to give our unique gift, the world will be in total harmony. -- R. Buckminster Fuller
The explicable requires the inexplicable. Experience requires the nonexperienceable. The obvious requires the mystical. -- R. Buckminster Fuller
We are operating at an overall mechanical efficiency of only four percent ... Therefore, we find that if we increase the overall mechanical efficiency to only twelve percent we can take care of everybody. That three-fold increase in the overall efficiency can only be accomplished by redesign. -- R. Buckminster Fuller
The universe is non-simultaneously apprehended -- R. Buckminster Fuller
We will always have war until there is enough of every essential to support all lives everywhere around earth. -- R. Buckminster Fuller
Mistakes are great, the more I make the smarter I get. -- R. Buckminster Fuller
Everything can be linked together in some fashion, in either a physical, psychological, or symbolic manner. -- R. Buckminster Fuller
Dictators never invent their own opportunities. -- R. Buckminster Fuller
How often I found where I should be going only by setting out for somewhere else. -- R. Buckminster Fuller
Universe is synergetic. Life is synergetic. -- R. Buckminster Fuller
Technologically we now have four [seven!] billion billionaires on board Spaceship Earth who are entirely unaware of their good fortune. -- R. Buckminster Fuller
God, to me, it seems, is a verb not a noun, proper or improper. -- R. Buckminster Fuller
Ninety-nine percent of humanity does not know that we have the option to "make it" economically on this planet and in the Universe. We do. -- R. Buckminster Fuller
We are most probably here for local information-gathering and local-Universe problem-solving in support of the integrity of eternally regenerative Universe. -- R. Buckminster Fuller
Physics has found no straight lines. Instead, the physical universe consists of only waves undulating back and forth allowing for corrections and balance. -- R. Buckminster Fuller
The Universe consists of non-simultaneously apprehended events. -- R. Buckminster Fuller
When I'm working on a problem, I never think about beauty. I think only how to solve the problem. -- R. Buckminster Fuller
People should think things out fresh and not just accept conventional terms and the conventional way of doing things. -- R. Buckminster Fuller
Truth is a tendency. -- R. Buckminster Fuller
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? -- R. Buckminster Fuller
All children are born geniuses, and we spend the first six years of their lives degeniusing them. -- R. Buckminster Fuller
There is an inherently minimum set of essential concepts and current information, cognizance of which could lead to our operating our planet Earth to the lasting satisfaction and health of all humanity. -- R. Buckminster Fuller
Racism, pollution and the rest of it are themselves very close to extinction. -- R. Buckminster Fuller
What humans have spontaneously identified as good and bad - or as positive and negative - are evolutionary complementations in need of more accurate identifications. -- R. Buckminster Fuller
A proverb is much matter distilled into few words. -- R. Buckminster Fuller
I'm not trying to copy Nature, I'm trying to find the principles she's using. -- R. Buckminster Fuller
Wealth is a measure of a person's ability to survive so many days forward. -- R. Buckminster Fuller
Search others for their virtue, and yourself for your vices. -- R. Buckminster Fuller
Don't change the man. Change his environment. -- R. Buckminster Fuller
I look for what needs to be done -- R. Buckminster Fuller
We are not going to be able to operate our Spaceship Earth successfully nor for much longer unless we see it as a whole spaceship and our fate as common. It has to be everybody or nobody. -- R. 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. -- R. Buckminster Fuller
Primarily the individual is going to study at home. -- R. Buckminster Fuller
All of humanity is in peril of extinction if each one of us does not dare, now and henceforth, always to tell only the truth, and all the truth, and to do so promptly -right now. -- R. Buckminster Fuller
Quite clearly, our task is predominantly metaphysical, for it is how to get all of humanity to educate itself swiftly enough to generate spontaneous social behaviors that will avoid extinction. -- R. Buckminster Fuller
There is no energy crisis, only a crisis of ignorance. -- R. Buckminster Fuller
Tension is the great integrity. -- R. Buckminster Fuller
You can never learn less, you can only learn more. -- R. Buckminster Fuller
Man is designed to be a comprehensivist . -- R. Buckminster Fuller
It seems that truth is progressive approximation in which the relative fraction of our spontaneously tolerated residual error constantly diminishes. -- R. Buckminster Fuller
Unity is plural and, at a minimum, is two. -- R. Buckminster Fuller
If you are the master be sometimes blind, if you are the servant be sometimes deaf. -- R. Buckminster Fuller
If you change the environment, you change the people. -- R. Buckminster Fuller
The opposite of nature is impossible. -- R. Buckminster Fuller
