R. Buckminster Fuller Quotes

When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe.

The truth is we're all part of one big content universe.

I love the interrelatedness of things.

There's something happening in the world that didn't happen before. We are acting like one big brain.

Those are the same stars, and that is the same moon, that look down upon your brothers and sisters, and which they see as they look up to them, though they are ever so far away from us, and each other.

I tend not to dwell on the parallels between chess and business, chess and the martial arts, or any two things for that matter, because the truth is that all pursuits are connected if we gain an eye for the thematic links.

Remember you don't do anything in isolation.

There is a reason behind life. There is some connectivity between living beings. Whether you want to call that 'God' or 'The Force' or whatever word you use for it, I do believe in a spiritualized mechanism.

I like having songs that go from the personal to the kind of inter-relational, universal, because everything comes back to micro/macro and everything's tied in.

Nothing can be by itself alone, no one can be by himself or herself alone, everyone has to inter-be with every one else. That is why, when you look outside, around you, you can see yourself.

My right wrist is connected to the left foot. You know, if the left foot doesn't work, the right wrist doesn't work, and that's really the truth.

I am in no way different from anyone else, that my predicament, my sense of aloneness or isolation may be precisely what unites me with everyone.

The world is interconnected and causations run in many directions at once.

I'm the kind of person who jumps around when he talks because everything is connected.

I think every being in the universe is connected somehow.

We all flow from one fountain.

Man is a sun and his senses are the planets.

For all is like an ocean, all flows and connects; touch it in one place and it echoes at the other end of the world.

It is not so much that you are within the cosmos but that the cosmos is within you.

The simple process of eating and breathing weave all of us together into a vast four-dimensional array. No matter how isolated you may sometimes feel, no matter how lonely, you are never really cut off from the whole.

There are no random acts...We are all connected...You can no more separate one life from another than you can separate a breeze from the wind.

Now this connection or adaption of all created things with each, and of each with all the rest, means that each simple substance has relations which express all the others, and that consequently it is a perpetual living mirror of the universe.

The world has a soul and whoever understands that soul can also understand the language of many things.

Really, all things and persons are related to us, but according to our nature, they act on us not at once, but in succession, andwe are made aware of their presence one at a time. All persons, all things which we have known, are here present, and many more than we see; the world is full.