R. Buckminster Fuller

If the 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?

If the 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?

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

When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the problem. But when I have finished; if the solution is not beautiful; I know it is wrong.

Synergy means behavior of whole systems unpredicted by the behavior of their parts.

Sometimes I think we're alone. Sometimes I think we're not. In either case, the thought is staggering.

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 make books serviceable, and give health and vigor to the mind.

Nature is trying very hard to make us succeed, but nature does not depend on us. We are not the only experiment.

Don't fight forces; use them.

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