With our minds alone we can discover those principles we need to employ to convert all humanity to success in a new, harmonious relationship with the universe.
All of humanity now has the option to “make it” successfully and sustainably, by virtue of our having minds, discovering principles and being able to employ these principles to do more with less.
I would say, then, that you are faced with a future in which education is going to be number one amongst the great world industries.
Whatever humans have learned had to be learned as a consequence only of trial and error experience. Humans have learned only through mistakes.
I have spent most of my life unlearning things that were proved not to be true.
Don’t fight forces, use them.
Pollution is nothing but the resources we are not harvesting. We allow them to disperse because we’ve been ignorant of their value.
Ninety-nine per cent of who you are is invisible and untouchable.
The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun.
By 2000, politics will simply fade away. We will not see any political parties.
Those who play with the devil’s toys will be brought by degrees to wield his sword.
The earth is like a spaceship that didn’t come with an operating manual.
You can never learn less; you can only learn more. The reason I know so much is because I have made so many mistakes.
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.
I’m not trying to counsel any of you to do anything really special except dare to think. And to dare to go with the truth. And to dare to really love completely.
I am convinced that creativity is a priori to the integrity of the universe and that life is regenerative and conformity meaningless.
Search others for their virtue, and yourself for your vices.
Integrity is the essence of everything successful.
If humanity does not opt for integrity we are through completely. It is absolutely touch and go. Each one of us could make the difference.
We are not going to be able to operate our Spaceship Earth successfully nor for much longer unless we see it as a whole spaceship and our fate as common. It has to be everybody or nobody.