The quotations of

Buckminster Fuller

American architect, systems theorist, author, designer, inventor and futurist

1895–1983

22 quotes, most often on Politics, War & Peace and Truth & Lies.

When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
- Beauty
Nature is trying very hard to make us succeed, but nature does not depend on us. We are not the only experiment.
- Nature
If I ran a school, I’d give the average grade to the ones who gave me all the right answers, for being good parrots. I’d give the top grades to those who made a lot of mistakes and told me about them, and then told me what they learned from them.
- Education
- Failure
Sometimes I think we’re alone. Sometimes I think we’re not. In either case, the thought is staggering.
God is a verb.
- God
Humanity is acquiring all the right technology for all the wrong reasons.
- Technology
Either war is obsolete or men are.
- War & Peace
All of humanity is in peril of extinction if each one of us does not dare, now and henceforth, always to tell only the truth, and all the truth, and to do so promptly — right now.
Critical Path (1981)
- Truth & Lies
The highest of generalizations is the synergetic integration of truth and love.
“Synergy” onwards, 1005.56
- Love
- Truth & Lies
Lack of knowledge concerning all the factors and the failure to include them in our integral imposes false conclusions.
The Wellspring of Reality
- Knowledge
It is the integrity of each individual human that is in final examination.
Critical Path (1981)
- Character
That’s the basis of all politics: it has to be you or me, there’s not enough for both of us. Survival of the fittest.
Buckminster Fuller Talks Politics (1982)
- Politics
The young world is giving up any interest in their political system. They have decided that it is absolutely corrupt.
Buckminster Fuller Talks Politics (1982)
- Politics
We are now synergetically forced to conclude that all phenomena are metaphysical; wherefore, as many have long suspected — like it or not — “life is but a dream.”
The Wellspring of Reality
- Life & Death
Thinking is a momentary dismissal of irrelevancies.
Utopia or Oblivion: The Prospects of Humanity (1969)
- Thinking

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