"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."

-- R. Buckminster Fuller

#Thinking Quotes #World Quotes #Patterns Quotes

“The European talks of progress because by the aid of a few scientific discoveries he has established a society which has mistaken comfort for civilisation.”
“I know all too well that people only see what they want to see and remember only what they want to remember.”
“If in any divination the Tenth Card should be a Court Card, it shews that the subject of the divination falls ultimately into the hands of a person represented by that card, and its end depends mainly on him.”

Source : A. E. Waite (2012). “The Pictorial Key to the Tarot”, p.208, Courier Corporation
“Vanity of science. Knowledge of physical science will not console me for ignorance of morality in time of affliction, but knowledge of morality will always console me for ignorance of physical science.”
“Why is an actor's unintentional giggling called a 'corpse'? It seems to me quite the opposite. It proves that he's very much alive, and can still tell how silly this all is: him dressed up as someone else speaking words written by a third party.”
“Race in America is not a problem you can go over, or around or under. You've got to go through it.”
“Unless you make allowances for your friends foibles, you betray your own.”
“As a nurse, we have the opportunity to heal the heart, mind, soul and body of our patients, their families and ourselves. They may not remember your name but they will never forget the way you made them feel.”

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