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R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER QUOTES<\/span><\/h1>\n

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After learning about Buckminster Fuller several decades ago… and becoming fully aware of his unique outlook…
\nI became an admirer of him… his focus, energy and candor.
\nHe truly was a comprehensivist… and I humbly have adopted that moniker to describe myself.
\nBelow are a host of his quotes covering all manner of life and our interactions here on ‘Spaceship <\/em>Earth’.<\/em><\/p>\n

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You never change things by fighting the existing reality.\u00a0 To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.<\/strong>
\n\u2013 Richard Buckminster Fuller<\/p>\n

The purpose of our lives is to add value to the people of this generation and those that\u00a0follow.<\/strong>
\n\u2013 Richard Buckminster Fuller<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The courage to cooperate or initiate are based entirely on the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth as the divine mind within you tells you the truth is.\u00a0 It really does require a courage and a self-disciplining to go along with that truth.
\n\u2013 Richard Buckminster Fuller<\/p>\n

I\u2019m not trying to counsel any of you to do anything really special except dare to think.\u00a0 And to dare to go with the truth.\u00a0 And to dare to really love completely.
\n\u2013 Richard Buckminster Fuller<\/p>\n

The minute you begin to do what you want to do, it\u2019s a different kind of life.
\n\u2013 Richard Buckminster Fuller<\/p>\n

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God is a verb.
\n\u2013 Richard Buckminster Fuller<\/p>\n

Faith is much better than belief.\u00a0 Belief is when someone else does the thinking.
\n\u2013 Richard Buckminster Fuller<\/p>\n

Never forget that you are one of a kind.\u00a0 Never forget that if there weren\u2019t any need for you in all your uniqueness to be on this earth, you wouldn\u2019t be here in the first place.\u00a0 And never forget, no matter how overwhelming life\u2019s challenges and problems seem to be, that one person can make a difference in the world.\u00a0 In fact, it is always because of one person that all the changes that matter in the world come about.\u00a0 So be that one person.
\n\u2013 Richard Buckminster Fuller<\/p>\n

If humanity does not opt for integrity we are through completely.\u00a0 It is absolutely touch and go.\u00a0 Each one of us could make the difference.<\/strong>
\n\u2013 Richard Buckminster Fuller<\/p>\n

Initiative can neither be created nor delegated.\u00a0 It can only spring from the self-determining individual, who decides that the wisdom of others is not always better than his own.
\n\u2013 Richard Buckminster Fuller<\/p>\n

The nearest each of us can come to God is by loving the truth.
\n\u2013 Richard Buckminster Fuller<\/p>\n

Life is the spirit incarnate in time.
\n\u2013 Richard Buckminster Fuller<\/p>\n

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I live on Earth at present, and I don\u2019t know what I am.\u00a0 I know that I am not a category.\u00a0 I am not a thing \u2013 a noun.\u00a0 I seem to be a verb, an evolutionary process \u2013 an integral function of the universe.
\n\u2013 Richard Buckminster Fuller<\/p>\n

Now there is one outstandingly important fact regarding Spaceship Earth, and that is that no\u00a0instruction book came with it.<\/strong>
\n\u2013 Richard Buckminster Fuller<\/p>\n

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.\u00a0 It has to be everybody or nobody.
\n\u2013 Richard Buckminster Fuller<\/p>\n

If success or failure of this planet and of human beings depended on how I am and what I do\u00a0\u2013 how would I be? What would I do?
\n\u2013 Richard Buckminster Fuller<\/p>\n

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I have to say, I think that we are in some kind of final examination as to whether human\u00a0beings now, with this capability to acquire information and to communicate, whether we\u2019re\u00a0really qualified to take on the responsibility we\u2019re designed to be entrusted with.
\n\u2013 Richard Buckminster Fuller<\/p>\n

When I was born, humanity was 95 per cent illiterate.\u00a0 Since I\u2019ve been born, the population has doubled and that total population is now 65 per cent literate.\u00a0 That\u2019s a gain of 130-fold of the literacy.\u00a0 When humanity is primarily illiterate, it needs leaders to understand and get the information and deal with it.\u00a0 When we are at the point where the majority of humans themselves are literate, able to get the information, we\u2019re in an entirely new relationship to Universe.\u00a0 We are at the point where the integrity of the individual counts and not what the political leadership or the religious leadership says to do.
\n\u2013 Richard Buckminster Fuller<\/p>\n

The point is that racism is the product of tribalism and ignorance and both are falling victim\u00a0to communications and world-around literacy.
\n\u2013 Richard Buckminster Fuller<\/p>\n

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Politicians are always realistically maneuvering for the next election.\u00a0 They are obsolete as fundamental problem-solvers.
\n\u2013 Richard Buckminster Fuller<\/p>\n

The politician is someone who deals in man\u2019s problems of adjustment.\u00a0 To ask a politician to lead us is to ask the tail of a dog to lead the dog.
\n\u2013 Richard Buckminster Fuller<\/p>\n

The primary purpose for government is to be a vehicle for the rich to get their hands into our\u00a0pockets.
\n\u2013 Richard Buckminster Fuller<\/p>\n

It is new design by architects versus world revolution by political leadership.
\n\u2013 Richard Buckminster Fuller<\/p>\n

The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun.
\n\u2013 Richard Buckminster Fuller<\/p>\n

Either war is obsolete or men are.
\n\u2013 Richard Buckminster Fuller<\/p>\n

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When I am working on a problem, I never think about beauty\u2026 but when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
\n\u2013 Richard Buckminster Fuller<\/p>\n

Everyone is born a genius, but the process of living de-geniuses them.
\n\u2013 Richard Buckminster Fuller<\/p>\n

If you want to teach people a new way of thinking, don\u2019t bother trying to teach them.\u00a0 Instead, give them a tool, the use of which will lead to new ways of thinking.
\n\u2013 Richard Buckminster Fuller<\/p>\n

There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it\u2019s going to be a butterfly.
\n\u2013 Richard Buckminster Fuller<\/p>\n

The things to do are: the things that need doing, that you see need to be done, and that no\u00a0one else seems to see need to be done.
\n\u2013 Richard Buckminster Fuller<\/p>\n

Humans beings always do the most intelligent thing \u2013 after they\u2019ve tried every stupid\u00a0alternative and none of them have worked.
\n\u2013 Richard Buckminster Fuller<\/p>\n

I look for what needs to be done.\u00a0 After all, that\u2019s how the universe designs itself.
\n\u2013 Richard Buckminster Fuller<\/p>\n

I\u2019m not a genius.\u00a0 I\u2019m just a tremendous bundle of experience.
\n\u2013 Richard Buckminster Fuller<\/p>\n

Observation of my life to date shows that the larger the number for whom I work, the more positively effective I become.\u00a0 Thus, it is obvious that if I work always and only for all humanity, I will be optimally effective.
\n\u2013 Richard Buckminster Fuller<\/p>\n

A proverb is much matter distilled into few words.
\n\u2013 Richard Buckminster Fuller<\/p>\n

A designer is an emerging synthesis of artist, inventor, mechanic, objective economist and evolutionary strategist.
\n\u2013 Richard Buckminster Fuller<\/p>\n

Everything you\u2019ve learned in school as \u201cobvious\u201d becomes less and less obvious as you begin to study the universe.\u00a0 For example, there are no solids in the universe.\u00a0 There\u2019s not even a suggestion of a solid.\u00a0 There are no absolute continuum’s.\u00a0 There are no surfaces.\u00a0 There are no straight lines.
\n\u2013 Richard Buckminster Fuller<\/p>\n

What usually happens in the educational process is that the faculties are dulled, overloaded,\u00a0stuffed and paralyzed so that by the time most people are mature they have lost their innate\u00a0capabilities.
\n\u2013 Richard Buckminster Fuller<\/p>\n

I set about fifty-five years ago (1927) to see what a penniless, unknown human individual\u00a0with a dependent wife and newborn child might be able to do effectively on behalf of all\u00a0humanity.
\n\u2013 Richard Buckminster Fuller<\/p>\n

Sometimes I think we\u2019re alone.\u00a0 Sometimes I think we\u2019re not.\u00a0 In either case, the thought is quite staggering.
\n\u2013 Richard Buckminster Fuller<\/p>\n

Thinking is a momentary dismissal of irrelevancies.
\n\u2013 Richard Buckminster Fuller<\/p>\n

Most of my advances were by mistake.\u00a0 You uncover what is when you get rid of what isn\u2019t.
\n\u2013 Richard Buckminster Fuller<\/p>\n

The true business of people should be to go back to school and think about whatever it was\u00a0they were thinking about before somebody came along and told them they had to earn a\u00a0living.
\n\u2013 Richard Buckminster Fuller<\/p>\n

Great nations are simply the operating fronts of behind-the-scenes, vastly ambitious\u00a0individuals who had become so effectively powerful because of their ability to remain invisible\u00a0while operating behind the national scenery.
\n\u2013 Richard Buckminster Fuller<\/p>\n

Nature does have manure and she does have roots as well as blossoms, and you can\u2019t hate\u00a0the manure and blame the roots for not being blossoms.
\n\u2013 Richard Buckminster Fuller<\/p>\n

Nature is trying very hard to make us succeed, but nature does not depend on us.\u00a0 We are not the only experiment.
\n\u2013 Richard Buckminster Fuller<\/p>\n

Love is metaphysical gravity.
\n\u2013 Richard Buckminster Fuller<\/p>\n

Geniuses are just people who had good mothers.
\n\u2013 Richard Buckminster Fuller<\/p>\n

I am convinced that creativity is a priority to the integrity of the universe and that life is\u00a0regenerative and conformity meaningless.
\n\u2013 Richard Buckminster Fuller<\/p>\n

Ninety-nine percent of who you are is invisible and untouchable.
\n\u2013 Richard Buckminster Fuller<\/p>\n

The most important thing to teach your children is that the sun does not rise and set.\u00a0 It is the Earth that revolves around the sun.
\n\u2013 Richard Buckminster Fuller<\/p>\n

Children are born true scientists.\u00a0 They spontaneously experiment and experience and re-experience again.\u00a0 They select, combine, and test, seeking to find order in their experiences \u2013 \u201cwhich is the mostest? which is the leastest?\u201d\u00a0 They smell, taste, bite, and touch-test for hardness, softness, springiness, roughness, smoothness, coldness, warmness: they heft, shake, punch, squeeze, push, crush, rub, and try to pull things apart.
\n\u2013 Richard Buckminster Fuller<\/p>\n

I would say, then, that you are faced with a future in which education is going to be number\u00a0one amongst the great world industries.
\n\u2013 Richard Buckminster Fuller<\/p>\n

Pollution is nothing but the resources we are not harvesting.\u00a0 We allow them to disperse because we\u2019ve been ignorant of their value.
\n\u2013 Richard Buckminster Fuller<\/p>\n

I just invent.\u00a0 Then I wait until man comes around to needing what I\u2019ve invented.
\n\u2013 Richard Buckminster Fuller<\/p>\n

The explicable requires the inexplicable.\u00a0 Experience requires the nonexperienceable.\u00a0 The obvious requires the mystical.
\n\u2013 Richard Buckminster Fuller<\/p>\n

My ideas have undergone a process of emergence by emergency.\u00a0 When they are needed badly enough, they are accepted.
\n\u2013 Richard Buckminster Fuller<\/p>\n

Man knows so much and does so little.
\n\u2013 Richard Buckminster Fuller<\/p>\n

Children will draw pictures with everything in them\u2026 houses and trees and people and animals\u2026 and the sun AND the moon.\u00a0 Grown-up says, \u201cThat\u2019s a nice picture, honey, but you put the moon and the sun in the sky at the same time and that isn\u2019t right.\u201d\u00a0 But the child IS right!\u00a0 The sun and moon are in the sky at the same time.
\n\u2013 Richard Buckminster Fuller<\/p>\n

Humanity is acquiring all the right technology for all the wrong reasons.
\n\u2013 Richard Buckminster Fuller<\/p>\n

You can never learn less; you can only learn more.
\n\u2013 Richard Buckminster Fuller<\/p>\n

You may very appropriately want to ask me how we are going to resolve the ever-acceleratingly dangerous impasse of world-opposed politicians and ideological dogmas. I\u00a0answer, it will be resolved by the computer.
\n\u2013 Richard Buckminster Fuller<\/p>\n

We as economic society are going to have to pay our whole population to go to school and\u00a0pay it to stay at school.
\n\u2013 Richard Buckminster Fuller<\/p>\n

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