Love is metaphysical gravity.

Love is metaphysical gravity.

Sourced, Critical Path (1981)

Other Buckminster Fuller Quotes

  • This book is written with the conviction that there are no ‘good’ or ‘bad’ people, no matter how offensive or eccentric to society they may seem… You and I didn’t design people. God designed people. What I am trying to do is to discover why God included humans in Universe. - View Quote Details on This book is written with the conviction that there are…
  • Don’t fight forces, use them. - View Quote Details on Don’t fight forces, use them.
  • Dare to be naïve. - View Quote Details on Dare to be naïve.
  • We are in an age that assumes the narrowing trends of specialization to be logical, natural, and desirable. Consequently, society expects all earnestly responsible communication to be crisply brief…. In the meantime, humanity has been deprived of comprehensive understanding. Specialization has bred feelings of isolation, futility, and confusion in individuals. It has also resulted in the individual’s leaving responsibility for thinking and social action to others. Specialization breeds biases that ultimately aggregate as international and ideological discord, which, in turn, leads to war. - View Quote Details on We are in an age that assumes the narrowing trends…
  • We evolute toward ever lesser brain comprehension lags — ergo, toward ever diminishing error; ergo, ever diminishing misunderstandings; ergo, ever diminishing fear, and its brain-lagging painful errors of objectivity; wherefore we approach eternal instantaneity of absolute and total comprehension. The eternal instantaneity of no lag at all. However, we have now learned from our generalizations of the great complexity of the interactions of principles as we are disembarrassed of our local, exclusively physical chemistry of information-sensing devices — that what is approached is eternal and instant awareness of absolute reality of all that ever existed. All the great metaphysical integrity of all the individuals, which is potential and inherent in the complex interactions of generalized principles, will always and only coexist eternally. - View Quote Details on We evolute toward ever lesser brain comprehension lags — ergo,…
  • A pattern has an integrity independent of the medium by virtue of which you have received the information that it exists. Each of the chemical elements is a pattern integrity. Each individual is a pattern integrity. The pattern integrity of the human individual is evolutionary and not static. - View Quote Details on A pattern has an integrity independent of the medium by…
  • The wellspring of reality is the family of weightless generalized principles. - View Quote Details on The wellspring of reality is the family of weightless generalized…
  • Unity is plural and, at minimum, is two. - View Quote Details on Unity is plural and, at minimum, is two.
  • There is something patently insane about all the typewriters sleeping with all the beautiful plumbing in the beautiful office buildings — and all the people sleeping in the slums. - View Quote Details on There is something patently insane about all the typewriters sleeping…
  • Synergy is the only word in our language which identifies the meaning for which it stands. Since the word is unknown to the average public, as I have already pointed out, it is not at all surprising that synergy has not been included in the economic accounting of our wealth transactions or in assessing our common wealth capabilities. - View Quote Details on Synergy is the only word in our language which identifies…
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