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The self-explorer, whether he wants to or not, becomes the explorer of everything else. He learns to see himself, but suddenly, provided he was honest, all the rest appears, and it is as rich as he was, and, as a final crowning, richer.
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The solutions all are simple - after you have arrived at them. But they're simple only when you know already what they are.
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The true courage of civilized nations is readiness for sacrifice in the service of the state, so that the individual counts as only one amongst many. The important thing here is not personal mettle but aligning oneself with the universal.
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There are some cases in which the sense of injury breeds - not the will to inflict injuries and climb over them as a ladder, but - a hatred of all injury.
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There is no intrinsic worth in money but what is alterable with the times, and whether a guinea goes for twenty pounds or for a shilling, it is the labor of the poor and not the high and low value that is set on gold or silver, which all the comforts of life must arise from.
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There is room enough indoors in New York City for the whole 1963 world's population to enter, with room enough inside for all hands to dance the twist in average nightclub proximity.
Prime Design (May 1960), later published in The Buckminster Fuller Reader (1970) edited by James MellerRichard Buckminster Fuller
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They who are all things to their neighbors cease to be anything to themselves.
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To be rooted is perhaps the most important and least recognized need of the human soul.
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To reduce the imagination to a state of slavery - even though it would mean the elimination of what is commonly called happiness - is to betray all sense of absolute justice within oneself. Imagination alone offers me some intimation of what can be.
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To write the lives of the great in separating them from their works necessarily ends by above all stressing their pettiness, because it is in their work that they have put the best of themselves.
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Watch, listen and learn. You can't know it all yourself. Anyone who thinks they do is destined for mediocrity.
The Way to the Top: The Best Business Advice I Ever Received (2004) 20 -
We all know that Art is not truth. Art is a lie that makes us realize truth, at least the truth that is given us to understand. The artist must know the manner whereby to convince others of the truthfulness of his lies.
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We all worry about the population explosion, but we don't worry about it at the right time.
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We are all instruments endowed with feeling and memory. Our senses are so many strings that are struck by surrounding objects and that also frequently strike themselves.
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We may have found a cure for most evils; but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all - the apathy of human beings.
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