“‘Thinking against oneself’: reflections on Cioran,” p. 79
Styles of Radical Will (1966)
“The wellspring of reality is the family of weightless generalized principles.”
1970s, Synergetics: Explorations in the Geometry of Thinking (1975), The Wellspring of Reality
Help us to complete the source, original and additional information
Do you have more details about the quote "The wellspring of reality is the family of weightless generalized principles." by Buckminster Fuller?
Buckminster Fuller 171
American architect, systems theorist, author, designer, inv… 1895–1983Related quotes
Will Durant
(1885–1981) American historian, philosopher and writer
Source: Fallen Leaves (2014), Ch. 2 : On Youth
Nick Herbert
(1936) American physicist
Source: Quantum Reality - Beyond The New Physics, Chapter 9, Four Quantum Realities, p. 159
“Pornography takes all the reality out of sex and Disney does that to family life.”
Jarvis Cocker
(1963) English musician, singer-songwriter, radio presenter and editor
Interview with The Big Issue magazine (2006)
Napoleon I of France
(1769–1821) French general, First Consul and later Emperor of the French
Napoleon : In His Own Words (1916)
Maurice Glasman, Baron Glasman
(1961) British philosopher
Channel 4 News, Monday 26 September 2011 http://www.channel4.com/news/ed-miliband-has-an-angry-insurgent-side
John Adams
(1735–1826) 2nd President of the United States
Letter to Thomas Jefferson, 28 June 1813. Often misquoted as "The general principles on which the fathers achieved independence were the general principles of Christianity"
1810s
Context: The general principles on which the fathers achieved independence, were … the general principles of Christianity, in which all those sects were united, and the general principles of English and American liberty, in which all those young men united, and which had united all parties in America, in majorities sufficient to assert and maintain her independence. Now I will avow, that I then believed and now believe that those general principles of Christianity are as eternal and immutable as the existence and attributes of God; and that those principles of liberty are as unalterable as human nature and our terrestrial, mundane system.
David Bohm
(1917–1992) American theoretical physicist
Context: There is no reason why an extraphysical general principle is necessarily to be avoided, since such principles could conceivably serve as useful working hypotheses. For the history of scientific research is full of examples in which it was very fruitful indeed to assume that certain objects or elements might be real, long before any procedures were known which would permit them to be observed directly.
“Amid the pressure of great events, a general principle gives no help.”
Lectures on the Philosophy of History (1832), Volume 1