We should stop kidding ourselves. We should let go of things that aren’t true. It’s always better with the truth.

I look for what needs to be done. After all, that’s how the universe designs itself.

A pattern has an integrity independent of the medium by virtue of which you have received the information that it exists.

You can’t better the world by simply talking to it. Philosophy to be effective must be mechanically applied.

We will always have war until there is enough of every essential to support all lives everywhere around earth.

If man chooses oblivion, he can go right on leaving his fate to his political leaders. If he chooses Utopia, he must initiate an enormous education program – immediately, if not sooner.

The assumption is that the inevitability of a solution’s realization is inherent in the interaction of human intellect and the constantly transformative evolution of physical universe.

Universe is synergetic. Life is synergetic.

Our little Spaceship Earth is only eight thousand miles in diameter, which is almost a negligible dimension in the great vastness of space.

My ideas have undergone a process of emergence by emergency. When they are needed badly enough, they are accepted.

When I’m working on a problem, I never think about beauty. I think only how to solve the problem.

Tombs are the clothes of the dead and a grave is a plain suit; while an expensive monument is one with embroidery.

Don’t attempt to reform man. An adequately organized environment will permit humanity’s original, innate capabilities to become successful.

I’m utterly convinced that we are all here for one another and that every experience that everyone is having is relevant. It all counts. The Universe is so extraordinarily well designed that it needs all those experiences.

Rashness is the faithful, but unhappy parent of misfortune.

Great nations are simply the operating fronts of behind-the-scenes, vastly ambitious individuals who had become so effectively powerful because of their ability to remain invisible while operating behind the national scenery.

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.

Human beings were given a left foot and a right foot to make a mistake first to the left, then to the right, left again and repeat.

There is room enough indoors in New York City for the whole 1963 world’s population to enter, with room enough inside for all hands to dance the twist in average nightclub proximity.

The impossible happens.

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

Universe is the aggregate of all humanity’s consciously apprehended and communicated nonsimultaneous and only partially overlapping experiences.

Since the initial publication of the chart of the electromagnetic spectrum, humans have learned that what they can touch, smell, see, and hear is less than one-millionth of reality.

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.

Unity is plural and, at a minimum, is two.

The pyramids, attached with age, have forgotten the names of their founders.

Selfishness is unnecessary. War is obsolete.

No man can prove upon awakening that he is the man who he thinks went to bed the night before, or that anything that he recollects is anything other than a convincing dream.

For man to go from less than 1% haves to 40%, living at high standard – despite decreasing resources – cannot be explained by anything other than by doing more than less.

Search others for their virtue, and yourself for your vices.

I must reorganize the environment of man by which then greater numbers of men can prosper.

We as economic society are going to have to pay our whole population to go to school and pay it to stay at school.

Humanity is an experimental initiative of Universe.

To expose a 4.2 Trillion dollar ripoff of the American people by the stockholders of the 1000 largest corporations over the last one-hundred years will be a tall order of business.

Consisting mostly of recirculating scrapped metals, 80% of all the metals that have ever been mined are still at work.

Out of my general world-pattern-trend studies there now comes strong evidence that nothing is going to be quite so surprising and abrupt in the future history of man as the forward evolution in the educational process.

Dictators never invent their own opportunities.

What usually happens in the educational process is that the faculties are dulled, overloaded, stuffed and paralyzed so that by the time most people are mature they have lost their innate capabilities.

A problem adequately stated is a problem solved theoretically and immediately, and therefore subsequently to be solved, realistically.

We have reached the point where we are now possessed of sufficient information for each individual human to dare to exercise the option to “make it” rather than having to depend on the decisions of an educated elite.

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.

It is new design by architects versus world revolution by political leadership.

Everything you’ve learned in school as “obvious” becomes less and less obvious as you begin to study the universe.

Brain deals exclusively with the physical, and mind exclusively with the metaphysical.

Pollution is merely a resource that isn’t being used properly.

Don’t try to make me consistent. I am learning all the time.

It seems that truth is progressive approximation in which the relative fraction of our spontaneously tolerated residual error constantly diminishes.

Everyone is born a genius.

n order for a world-around democracy to prosper, world society must learn how to prosper.

One of humanity’s prime drives is to understand and be understood. All other living creatures are designed for highly specialized tasks. Man seems unique as the comprehensive comprehender and co-ordinator of local universe affairs.

Technology paces industry, but there’s a long lag in the process.

The individual can take initiatives without anybody’s permission. Only individuals can think. Only the individual disregards his fears and commits himself exclusively to reforming the human environment.

Architects, if they are really to be comprehensive, must assume the enormous task of thinking in terms always disciplined to the scale of the total world pattern of needs, its resource flows, its recirculatory and regenerative processes.

Every child has an enormous drive to demonstrate competence.

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.

If we design the environment properly, it will permit child and man to develop safely and to behave logically.

Initiative can neither be created nor delegated. It can only spring from the self-determining individual, who decides that the wisdom of others is not always better than his own.

It is well known that of every strong woman they say she has a masculine mind.

The one common experience of all humanity is the challenge of problems.

Whether we are able to be a complete success or failure is in such critical balance that every smallest human test of integrity every smallest moment-to-moment decision tips the scales affirmatively or negatively.

By 2000, politics will simply fade away. We will not see any political parties.

Ninety-nine per cent of who you are is invisible and untouchable.

People should think things out fresh and not just accept conventional terms and the conventional way of doing things.

Only the free-wheeling artist-explorer, non-academic, scientist-philosopher, mechanic, economist-poet who has never waited for patron-starting and accrediting of his co-ordinate capabilities holds the prime initiative today.

You never change people by fighting their existing reality.

God, to me, it seems, is a verb not a noun, proper or improper.

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.

Bite your tongue. Get a cinder in your eye. When you feel good, you feel nothing.

Faith is much better than belief. Belief is when someone else does the thinking.

Wealth is the product of energy times intelligence: energy turned into artifacts that advantage human life.

There are no solids. There are no things. There are only interfering and non-interfering patterns operative in pure principle, and principles are eternal.

If I ran a school, I’d give the average grade to the ones who gave me all the right answers, for being good parrots. I’d give the top grades to those who made a lot of mistakes and told me about them, and then told me what they learned from them.

How much does your building weigh? A question often used to challenge architects to consider how efficiently materials were used for the space enclosed.

The earth is like a spaceship that didn’t come with an operating manual.

Dolphins may well be carrying information as well as functions critical to the regeneration of life upon our planet.

We are prisoners of our own metaphors, metaphorically speaking.

Each one of us has something to contribute. This really depends on each one doing their own thinking, but not following any kind of rule.

We are most probably here for local information-gathering and local-Universe problem-solving in support of the integrity of eternally regenerative Universe.

Racism, pollution and the rest of it are themselves very close to extinction.

Truth is the progressive diminution of residual error.

Either man is obsolete or war is. War is the ultimate tool of politics. Political leaders look out only for their own side. Politicians are always realistically maneuvering for the next election. They are obsolete as fundamental problem-solvers.

Universe to each must be All that is, including me. Environment in turn must be All that is, excepting me.

The world is now too dangerous for anything less than utopia.

Doing the right things for the wrong reasons is typical of humanity. Precession – not conscious planning – provides a productive outcome for misguided political and military campaigns.

I am convinced all of humanity is born with more gifts than we know. Most are born geniuses and just get de-geniused rapidly.

Does humanity have a chance to survive lastingly and successfully on planet Earth, and if so, how?

Ideas are easy to come by; reduction to practice is an arduous but inspirationally rewarding matter.

Now there is one outstanding important fact regarding spaceship earth, and that is that no instruction book came with it.

Unchallenged, opinions became respected precedent then exceptionless concepts and sometimes even civil and academically accepted social law.

Man is designed to be a comprehensivist.

Topology is the science of fundamental pattern and structural relationships of event constellations.

The more for whom we strive to serve, the greater effectiveness we will have.

Everything we see is inside our own heads.

Specialization is in fact only a fancy form of slavery wherein the ‘expert’ is fooled into accepting a slavery by making him feel that he in turn is a socially and culturally preferred-ergo, highly secure-lifelong position.

You take the senses away, and there is no consciousness. Consciousness comes from experience.

All human advances occur in the outlaw area.

Every time man makes a new experiment he always learns more. He cannot learn less.

Observation of my life to date shows that the larger the number for whom I work, the more positively effective I become. Thus, it is obvious that if I work always and only for all humanity, I will be optimally effective.

Pollution is nothing but resources we’re not harvesting.

There will come a time when the proper education of children, by a glorified system of spontaneous education of choice, similar to the Montessori System, will be made possible.

Always tell only the truth, and all the truth, and do so promptly – right now.

Education by choice, with its marvelous motivating psychology of desire for truth, will make life ever cleaner and happier, more rhythmical and artistic.

We must do away with the absolutely specious notion that everybody has to earn a living.

If you are the master be sometimes blind, if you are the servant be sometimes deaf.

A problem adequately stated is a problem well on its way to being solved.

Don’t change the man. Change his environment.

Synergy is the only word in our language that means behavior of whole systems unpredicted by the separately observed behaviors of any of the system’s separate parts or any subassembly of the system’s parts.

We are powerfully imprisoned in these Dark Ages simply by the terms in which we have been conditioned to think.

The true business of people should be to go back to school and think about whatever it was they were thinking about before somebody came along and told them they had to earn a living.

Humanity is now experiencing history’s most difficult evolutionary transformation.

I just invent, then wait until man comes around to needing what I’ve invented

Coping with the totality of Spaceship Earth and universe is ahead for all of us.

The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun.

Above all, I am motivated by the most mysterious drive we ever experience -that of love – I don’t think there’s any influence on my life that compares with love.

Most of my advances were by mistake. You uncover what is when you get rid of what isn’t.

Right now I am a passenger on space vehicle Earth zooming about the Sun at 60,000 miles per hour somewhere in the solar system.

Television is the third parent.

The vector equilibrium is the zero point for happenings or nonhappenings: it is the empty theater and empty circus and empty universe ready to accommodate any act and any audience.

Conceptuality is subjective; realization is objective.

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.

I look for what needs to be done.

All of humanity is in peril of extinction if each one of us does not dare, now and henceforth, always to tell only the truth, and all the truth, and to do so promptly -right now.

Nature does have manure and she does have roots as well as blossoms, and you can’t hate the manure and blame the roots for not being blossoms.

God is the great comprehensive a priori integrity of Universe within which human beings find themselves to be operating.

There is no such thing as genius, some children are just less damaged than others.

We live in a decaying age. Young people no longer respect their parents. They are rude and impatient. They frequently inhabit taverns and have no self control.

When individuals join in a cooperative venture, the power generated far exceeds what they could have accomplished acting individually.

Man is going to be displaced altogether as a specialist by the computer. Man himself is being forced to reestablish, employ, and enjoy his innate ’comprehensivity.

How do we make the world work?

The explicable requires the inexplicable. Experience requires the nonexperienceable. The obvious requires the mystical.

The nearest each of us can come to God is by loving the truth.

I am deeply impressed with the designer of the universe; I am confident I couldnt have done anywhere near such a good job.

Never show unfinished work.

Whatever humans have learned had to be learned as a consequence only of trial and error experience. Humans have learned only through mistakes.

There is only one revolution tolerable to all men, all societies, all political systems: Revolution by design and invention.

On personal integrity hangs humanity’s fate.

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.

Those who play with the devil’s toys will be brought by degrees to wield his sword.

Whenever I draw a circle, I immediately want to step out of it.

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

To ask a politician to lead us is to ask the tail of a dog to lead the dog.

Either war is obsolete, or men are.

Love is omni-inclusive, progressively exquisite, understanding and compassionately attuned to other than self.

You can’t learn less.

I have great hope for tomorrow. My hope lies in three things-truth, youth, and love.

Physics has found no straight lines. Instead, the physical universe consists of only waves undulating back and forth allowing for corrections and balance.

I am a passenger on the spaceship Earth.

None of the world’s problems will have a solution until the world’s individuals become thoroughly self-educated.

Our power is in our ability to decide.

How often I found where I should be going only by setting out for somewhere else.

The wave is not the water. The water merely told us about the wave moving by.

One can study a caterpillar forever and never be able to predict a butterfly.

Everything you’ve learned in school as “obvious” becomes less and less obvious as you begin to study the universe. For example, there are no solids in the universe. There’s not even a suggestion of a solid. There are no absolute continuums. There are no surfaces. There are no straight lines.

I’m not a genius. I’m just a tremendous bundle of experience.

Life is the spirit incarnate in time.

The further art advances the closer it approaches science, the further science advances the closer it approaches art.

I’m not trying to copy Nature, I’m trying to find the principles she’s using.

Humanity has the option to become successful on our planet if we reorient world production away from weaponry – from killingry to livingry. Can we convince humanity in time?

Integrity is the courage and self-discipline to cooperate and initiate according to the Divine, which you know in your heart as Truth.

The future is a choice between Utopia and oblivion.

All children are born geniuses, and we spend the first six years of their lives degeniusing them.

We must progress to the stage of doing all the right things for all the right reasons instead of doing all the right things for all the wrong reasons.

Our beds are empty two-thirds of the time. Our living rooms are empty seven-eighths of the time. Our office buildings are empty one-half of the time. It’s time we gave this some thought.

Nature is a totally efficient, self-regenerati ng system. IF we discover the laws that govern this system and live synergistically within them, sustainability will follow and humankind will be a success.

God is a verb, not a noun.

I see God in the instruments and mechanisms that work reliably.

Everyone is born a genius, but the process of living de-geniuses them.

It is the integrity of each individual human that is in final examination. On personal integrity hangs humanity’s fate.

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.

Nature is trying very hard to make us succeed, but nature does not depend on us. We are not the only experiment.

The Universe consists of non-simultaneously apprehended events.

Seeing-is-believing is a blind spot in man’s vision.

The opposite of nature is impossible.

The reward for being a good problem solver is to be heaped with more and more difficult problems to solve.

The minute you begin to do what you really want to do, it’s really a different kind of life.

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

You can never learn less; you can only learn more.

Controlled time is our true wealth.

The dark ages still reign over all humanity, and the depth and persistence of this domination are only now becoming clear. This Dark Ages prison has no steel bars, chains, or locks. Instead, it is locked by misorientation and built of misinformation.

Humanity is acquiring all the right technology for all the wrong reasons.

A designer is an emerging synthesis of artist, inventor, mechanic, objective economist and evolutionary strategist.

You can make money or you can make sense. The two are mutually exclusive.

Geniuses are just people who had good mothers.

Mistakes are great, the more I make the smarter I get.

It is not for me to change you. The question is, how can I be of service to you without diminishing your degrees of freedom?

Real wealth is ideas plus energy.

It is not for me to change you. The question is, how can I be of service to you without diminishing your degrees of freedom?

I call intuition cosmic fishing. You feel a nibble, then you’ve got to hook the fish.

I have spent most of my life unlearning things that were proved not to be true.

Everyone has the perfect gift to give the world-and if each of us is freed up to give our unique gift, the world will be in total harmony.

There is no energy crisis, only a crisis of ignorance.

You can rest assured that if you devote your time and attention to the highest advantage of others, the Universe will support you, always and only in the nick of time.

When I am working on a problem, I never think about beauty but when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.