435 Quotes by R. Buckminster Fuller

For the first time in history it is now possible to take care of everybody at a higher standard of living than any have ever known. Only ten years ago the 'more with less' technology reached the point where this could be done. All humanity now has the option to become enduringly successful.

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

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 nearest each of us can come to God is by loving the truth.

By and large, I seem to have made more mistakes than any others of whom I know, but have learned thereby to make ever swifter acknowledgment of the errors and thereafter immediately set about to deal more effectively with the truths disclosed by the acknowledgment of erroneous assumptions.

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.

I see God in the instruments and mechanisms that work reliably.

The purpose of our lives is to add value to the people of this generation and those that follow.

We are powerfully imprisoned in these Dark Ages simply by the terms in which we have been conditioned to think.