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 More Quotes by R. Buckminster Fuller More Quotes From R. Buckminster Fuller 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. R. Buckminster Fuller important special order 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 tasks needs thinking 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 humanity self world Here is an educational bombshell: Take from all of today's industrial nations all their industrial machinery and all their energy-distributing networks, and leave them all their ideologies, all their political leaders, and all their political organizations, and I can tell you that within six months, two billion people will die of starvation, having gone through great pain and deprivation along the way. R. Buckminster Fuller educational pain wisdom 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 design tools wisdom 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 mysterious behavior principles 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 ninety-nine wisdom humanity 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 effectiveness mysterious thinking Rashness is the faithful, but unhappy parent of misfortune. R. Buckminster Fuller faithful parent unhappy Thinking is a momentary dismissal of irrelevancies. R. Buckminster Fuller dismissal momentary thinking Life is the spirit incarnate in time. R. Buckminster Fuller spirit life-is Topology is the science of fundamental pattern and structural relationships of event constellations. R. Buckminster Fuller patterns events fundamentals ...primarily the individual is going to study at home. R. Buckminster Fuller individual study home 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 feet mistake firsts God is the great comprehensive a priori integrity of Universe within which human beings find themselves to be operating. R. Buckminster Fuller comprehensive humans integrity 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 embroidery clothes suits I see God in the instruments and the mechanisms that work reliably, more reliably than the limited sensory departments of R. Buckminster Fuller mechanism instruments Unity is plural and, at a minimum, is two. R. Buckminster Fuller chaos unity two War is the ultimate tool of politics. R. Buckminster Fuller tools war peace 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 high-standards politics men
