435 Quotes by R. Buckminster Fuller

You take the senses away, and there is no consciousness. Consciousness comes from experience.

Television is the third parent.

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

If humans are not required to earn a living to be provided survival needs, many are going to want very much to be productive, but not at those tasks they did not choose to do but were forced to accept in order to earn money. Instead, humans will spontaneously take upon themselves those tasks that world society really needs to have done.

Faith is much better than belief. Belief is when someone else does the thinking.

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.

Real wealth is ideas plus energy.

That which is communicated, i.e., understood, is metaphysical. The means of communication is physical.

Rashness is the faithful, but unhappy parent of misfortune.