R. Buckminster Fuller Quotes

We are not the same. But we are, somehow, one.

You're not a wave, you're a part of the ocean.

There is no 'them' and 'us.' There is only us.

People desire to separate their worlds into polarities of dark and light, ugly and beautiful, good and evil, right and wrong, inside and outside. Polarities serve us in our learning and growth, but as souls we are all.

America is not anything if it consists of each of us. It is something only if it consists of all of us.

Pluralism lets things really exist in the each-form or distributively. Monism thinks that the all-form or collective-unit form is the only form that is rational.

E Pluribus Unum [One out of many]

E Pluribus Unum, the Latin phrase on the great seal of the United States literally translated means one from many. We need to reattach pluribus to unum—the many to the one.

We Are One

I do not like carving the world into segments; we are one world.

That's why I call the show 'Us & Them,' because I believe there is no 'them.' There's only 'us.'

We're all one thing, and we're all just enacting different aspects of ourselves all the time.

Being human means there's a wall-builder in each of us. Our minds naturally divide the world into me and not-me, us and them. For thousands of years, our sages have taught that we're all one, yet we still divide wherever we look.

We don't believe in a world of us versus them; we look at the world as all of us together.

It's always odd to me when people say, 'Where does Heloise finish and Chris start?' It's the same thing. I'm just putting a theatrical form to my expression.

God is found in the collection of Many. . . rather than in the One.

if there isn’t a them, there can’t be an us.

From out of all the many particulars comes oneness, and out of oneness come all the many particulars.

We are but one of the multitude, in no respect better than any other in it.

You cannot conceive the many without the one.

When you call me European, I say yes. When you call me Arab, I say yes. When you call me black, I say yes. When you call me white, I say yes. Because I am in you and you are in me. We have to inter-be with everything in the cosmos.

Peace is present when things form part of a whole greater than their sum, as the diverse minerals in the ground collect to become the tree.

Instead of separation and division, all distinctions make for a rich diversity to be celebrated for the sake of the unity that underlies them. We are different so that we can know our need of one another.

We're all inseparably part of each other. We all coexist in each other.