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Quotes from Synergetics: Explorations in the Geometry of Thinking — Buckminster Fuller

1895–1983 United States

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The highest of generalizations is the synergetic integration of truth and love.

Synergetics: Explorations in the Geometry of Thinking (1975)

It is one of our most exciting discoveries that local discovery leads to a complex of further discoveries.

Synergetics: Explorations in the Geometry of Thinking (1975)

The quantity of energy that ceased to "fall in" is the system's entropy.

Synergetics: Explorations in the Geometry of Thinking (1975)

Synergy means behavior of whole systems unpredicted by the behavior of their parts taken separately.

Synergetics: Explorations in the Geometry of Thinking (1975)

Unity is plural and, at minimum, is two.

Synergetics: Explorations in the Geometry of Thinking (1975)

The youth of humanity all around our planet are intuitively revolting from all sovereignties and political ideologies.

Synergetics: Explorations in the Geometry of Thinking (1975)

Lack of knowledge concerning all the factors and the failure to include them in our integral imposes false conclusions.

Synergetics: Explorations in the Geometry of Thinking (1975)

Gravity is the inwardly cohering force acting integratively on all systems. Radiation is the outwardly disintegrating force acting divisively upon all systems.

Synergetics: Explorations in the Geometry of Thinking (1975)

Synergy means behavior of integral, aggregate, whole systems unpredicted by behaviors of any of their components or subassemblies of their components taken separately from the whole.

Synergetics: Explorations in the Geometry of Thinking (1975)

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.

Synergetics: Explorations in the Geometry of Thinking (1975)

The wellspring of reality is the family of weightless generalized principles.

Synergetics: Explorations in the Geometry of Thinking (1975)

Specialization breeds biases that ultimately aggregate as international and ideological discord, which, in turn, leads to war.

Synergetics: Explorations in the Geometry of Thinking (1975)

Quite clearly, our task is predominantly metaphysical, for it is how to get all of humanity to educate itself swiftly enough to generate spontaneous social behaviors that will avoid extinction.

Synergetics: Explorations in the Geometry of Thinking (1975)

Truth is cosmically total: synergetic. Verities are generalized principles stated in semimetaphorical terms. Verities are differentiable. But love is omniembracing, omnicoherent, and omni-inclusive, with no exceptions. Love, like synergetics, is nondifferentiable, i.e., is integral.

Synergetics: Explorations in the Geometry of Thinking (1975)

There is nothing that a single massive sphere will or can ever do by itself that says it will both exert and yield attractively with a neighboring massive sphere and that it yields progressively: every time the distance between the two is halved, the attraction will be fourfolded. This unpredicted, only mutual behavior is synergy.

Synergetics: Explorations in the Geometry of Thinking (1975)

We are now synergetically forced to conclude that all phenomena are metaphysical; wherefore, as many have long suspected — like it or not — "life is but a dream."

Synergetics: Explorations in the Geometry of Thinking (1975)

The eternal is omniembracing and permeative; and the temporal is linear. This opens up a very high order of generalizations of generalizations. The truth could not be more omni-important, although it is often manifestly operative only as a linear identification of a special-case experience on a specialized subject.

Synergetics: Explorations in the Geometry of Thinking (1975)

The explicable requires the inexplicable. Experience requires the nonexperienceable. The obvious requires the mystical. This is a powerful group of paired concepts generated by the complementarity of conceptuality.

Synergetics: Explorations in the Geometry of Thinking (1975)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Buckminster Fuller (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.