Top 250 R. Buckminster Fuller Quotes (2024 Update)
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101. “Conceptuality is subjective; realization is objective.”

— R. Buckminster Fuller

102. “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.”

— R. Buckminster Fuller

103. “Television is the third parent.”

— R. Buckminster Fuller

104. “Don’t change the man. Change his environment.”

— R. Buckminster Fuller

105. “Right now I am a passenger on space vehicle Earth zooming about the Sun at 60,000 miles per hour somewhere in the solar system.”

— R. Buckminster Fuller

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

— R. Buckminster Fuller

107. “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.”

— R. Buckminster Fuller

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

— R. Buckminster Fuller

109. “Coping with the totality of Spaceship Earth and universe is ahead for all of us.”

— R. Buckminster Fuller

110. “I just invent, then wait until man comes around to needing what I’ve invented.”

— R. Buckminster Fuller

111. “Humanity is now experiencing history’s most difficult evolutionary transformation.”

— R. Buckminster Fuller

112. “Either man is obsolete or war is. War is the ultimate tool of politics. Political leaders look out only for their own side. Politicians are always realistically maneuvering for the next election. They are obsolete as fundamental problem-solvers.”

— R. Buckminster Fuller

113. “The true business of people should be to go back to school and think about whatever it was they were thinking about before somebody came along and told them they had to earn a living.”

— R. Buckminster Fuller

114. “Synergy is the only word in our language that means behavior of whole systems unpredicted by the separately observed behaviors of any of the system’s separate parts or any subassembly of the system’s parts.”

— R. Buckminster Fuller

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

— R. Buckminster Fuller

116. “I am convinced that creativity is a priori to the integrity of the universe and that life is regenerative and conformity meaningless.”

— R. Buckminster Fuller

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

— R. Buckminster Fuller

118. “We must do away with the absolutely specious notion that everybody has to earn a living.”

— R. Buckminster Fuller

119. “Education by choice, with its marvelous motivating psychology of desire for truth, will make life ever cleaner and happier, more rhythmical and artistic.”

— R. Buckminster Fuller

120. “Pollution is nothing but resources we’re not harvesting.”

— R. Buckminster Fuller

121. “Always tell only the truth, and all the truth, and do so promptly – right now.”

— R. Buckminster Fuller

122. “Observation of my life to date shows that the larger the number for whom I work, the more positively effective I become. Thus, it is obvious that if I work always and only for all humanity, I will be optimally effective.”

— R. Buckminster Fuller

123. “There will come a time when the proper education of children, by a glorified system of spontaneous education of choice, similar to the Montessori System, will be made possible.”

— R. Buckminster Fuller

124. “Let architects sing of aesthetics that bring Rich clients in hordes to their knees; Just give me a home, in a great circle dome Where stresses and strains are at ease.”

— R. Buckminster Fuller

125. “Ninety-nine per cent of who you are is invisible and untouchable.”

— R. Buckminster Fuller

126. “Every time man makes a new experiment he always learns more. He cannot learn less.”

— R. Buckminster Fuller

127. “All human advances occur in the outlaw area.”

— R. Buckminster Fuller

128. “People should think things out fresh and not just accept conventional terms and the conventional way of doing things.”

— R. Buckminster Fuller

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

— R. Buckminster Fuller

130. “Specialization is in fact only a fancy form of slavery wherein the ‘expert’ is fooled into accepting a slavery by making him feel that he in turn is a socially and culturally preferred-ergo, highly secure-lifelong position.”

— R. Buckminster Fuller

131. “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.”

— R. Buckminster Fuller

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

— R. Buckminster Fuller

133. “Everything we see is inside our own heads.”

— R. Buckminster Fuller

134. “Topology is the science of fundamental pattern and structural relationships of event constellations.”

— R. Buckminster Fuller

135. “The individual can take initiatives without anybody’s permission. Only individuals can think. Only the individual disregards his fears and commits himself exclusively to reforming the human environment.”

— R. Buckminster Fuller

136. “Man is designed to be a comprehensivist .”

— R. Buckminster Fuller

137. “Unchallenged, opinions became respected precedent then exceptionless concepts and sometimes even civil and academically accepted social law.”

— R. Buckminster Fuller

138. “Brain deals exclusively with the physical, and mind exclusively with the metaphysical.”

— R. Buckminster Fuller

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

— R. Buckminster Fuller

140. “Ideas are easy to come by; reduction to practice is an arduous but inspirationally rewarding matter.”

— R. Buckminster Fuller

141. “Does humanity have a chance to survive lastingly and successfully on planet Earth, and if so, how?”

— R. Buckminster Fuller

142. “I am convinced all of humanity is born with more gifts than we know. Most are born geniuses and just get de-geniused rapidly.”

— R. Buckminster Fuller

143. “Doing the right things for the wrong reasons is typical of humanity. Precession – not conscious planning – provides a productive outcome for misguided political and military campaigns.”

— R. Buckminster Fuller

144. “The world is now too dangerous for anything less than utopia.”

— R. Buckminster Fuller

145. “Universe to each must be All that is, including me. Environment in turn must be All that is, excepting me.”

— R. Buckminster Fuller

146. “Truth is the progressive diminution of residual error.”

— R. Buckminster Fuller

147. “We are most probably here for local information-gathering and local-Universe problem-solving in support of the integrity of eternally regenerative Universe.”

— R. Buckminster Fuller

148. “Racism, pollution and the rest of it are themselves very close to extinction.”

— R. Buckminster Fuller

149. “Each one of us has something to contribute. This really depends on each one doing their own thinking, but not following any kind of rule...”

— R. Buckminster Fuller

150. “Since the initial publication of the chart of the electromagnetic spectrum, humans have learned that what they can touch, smell, see, and hear is less than one-millionth of reality.”

— R. Buckminster Fuller