R. Buckminster Fuller Quotes

With our minds alone we can discover those principles we need to employ to convert all humanity to success in a new, harmonious relationship with the universe.

The vector equilibrium is the zero point for happenings or nonhappenings: it is the empty theater and empty circus and empty universe ready to accommodate any act and any audience.

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

Some of us are just less damaged than others.

The more for whom we strive to serve, the greater effectiveness we will have.

One of humanity’s prime drives is to understand and be understood. All other living creatures are designed for highly specialized tasks. Man seems unique as the comprehensive comprehender and co-ordinator of local universe affairs.

Integrity is the courage and self-discipline to cooperate and initiate according to the Divine, which you know in your heart as Truth.

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.

Search others for their virtue, and yourself for your vices.

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

You can never learn less; you can only learn more. The reason I know so much is because I have made so many mistakes.

… reform the environment and not man; being absolutely confident that if you give man the right environment, he will behave favorably.