Quotes from R. Buckminster Fuller

When individuals join in a cooperative venture, the power generated far exceeds what they could have accomplished acting individually.

God, to me, it seems, is a verb not a noun, proper or improper.

God is the great comprehensive a priori integrity of Universe within which human beings find themselves to be operating.

God is a verb not a noun.

I am deeply impressed with the designer of the universe; I am confident I couldnt have done anywhere near such a good job.

Technologically we now have four [seven!] billion billionaires on board Spaceship Earth who are entirely unaware of their good fortune.

What humans have spontaneously identified as good and bad - or as positive and negative - are evolutionary complementations in need of more accurate identifications.

The pyramids, attached with age, have forgotten the names of their founders.

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.

Humanity is acquiring all the right technology for all the wrong reasons.

It is the integrity of each individual human that is in final examination. On personal integrity hangs humanity's fate.

I do not look upon human beings as good or bad.

The one common experience of all humanity is the challenge of problems.

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.

Humanity is now experiencing history's most difficult evolutionary transformation.

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.

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.

The minute you begin to do what you really want to do, it's really a different kind of life.

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.

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?

The earth is like a spaceship that didn't come with an operating manual.

Whatever humans have learned had to be learned as a consequence only of trial and error experience. Humans have learned only through mistakes.

You can't learn less.

Controlled time is our true wealth.