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Quotes by R. Buckminster Fuller

Integrity is the essence of everything successful.

R. Buckminster Fuller

The most important fact about Spaceship Earth: an instruction book didnt come with it.

R. Buckminster Fuller

God is a verb not a noun.

R. Buckminster Fuller

Dare to be naive.

R. Buckminster Fuller

Either war is obsolete, or men are.

R. Buckminster Fuller

War is the ultimate tool of politics.

R. Buckminster Fuller

Love is metaphysical gravity.

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

Im not a genius. Im just a tremendous bundle of experience.

R. Buckminster Fuller

There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you its going to be a butterfly.

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

Man knows so much and does so little.

R. Buckminster Fuller

We are called to be architects of the future, not its victims.

R. Buckminster Fuller

God is a verb, not a noun.

R. Buckminster Fuller

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

R. Buckminster Fuller

Truth is a tendency.

R. Buckminster Fuller

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

R. Buckminster Fuller

Faith is much better than belief. Belief is when someone else does the thinking.

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

Pollution is nothing but the resources we are not harvesting. We allow them to disperse because weve been ignorant of their value.

R. Buckminster Fuller