Quotes from R. Buckminster Fuller

Love is a metaphysical gravity.

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.

Man knows so much and does so little.

One in ten thousand of us can make a technological breakthrough capable of supporting all the rest. The youth of today are absolutely right in recognizing this nonsense of earning a wage.

Gold and silver from the dead turn often into lead.

If you are the master be sometimes blind, if you are the servant be sometimes deaf.

Now there is one outstandingly important fact regarding Spaceship Earth, and that is that no instruction book came with it.

There is only one revolution tolerable to all men, all societies, all political systems: Revolution by design and invention.

A problem adequately stated is a problem well on its way to being solved.

If man chooses oblivion, he can go right on leaving his fate to his political leaders. If he chooses Utopia, he must initiate an enormous education program - immediately, if not sooner.

Don't attempt to reform man. An adequately organized environment will permit humanity's original, innate capabilities to become successful.

Now there is one outstanding important fact regarding spaceship earth, and that is that no instruction book came with it.

We will always have war until there is enough of every essential to support all lives everywhere around earth.

Seeing-is-believing is a blind spot in man's vision.

Here is God's purpose — for God, to me it seems, is a verb — not a noun, proper or improper...

Most of my advances were by mistake. You uncover what is when you get rid of what isn't.

Initiative can neither be created nor delegated. It can only spring from the self-determining individual, who decides that the wisdom of others is not always better than his own.

Man is going to be displaced altogether as a specialist by the computer. Man himself is being forced to reestablish, employ, and enjoy his innate 'comprehensivity.

Rashness is the faithful, but unhappy parent of misfortune.

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

It is well known that of every strong woman they say she has a masculine mind.

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

[My vision is] To make the world work for 100% of humanity in the shortest possible time through spontaneous cooperation without ecological offense or the disadvantage of anyone.

You can never learn less; you can only learn more.