J. F. C. Fuller Quotes

Mind is the antithesis of reflex, and only mind could discover mind

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

Technologically we now have four [seven!] billion billionaires on board Spaceship Earth who are entirely unaware of their good fortune.

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

That which is communicated, i.e., understood, is metaphysical. The means of communication is physical.

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

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

Never show unfinished work.

Anyone happy in this age and place Is daft or corrupt. Better to abdicate From a material and spiritual terrain Fit only for barbarians.

Water inflated the belly Of Hart Crane, and of Shelley. Coleridge was a dope. Southwell died on a rope.

The more wit the less courage.

I think you have to write what you want to watch.

The black revolt is as palpable in letters as it is in the streets.

Truth is the nursing mother of genius.

The life of the soul is incalculable.

There are noble books but one wants the breath of life sometimes.

There are noble books but one wants the breath of life sometimes. And I see no divine person. I myself am more divine than any I see I think that is enough to say about them.

Those have not lived who have not seen Rome.

How many persons must there be who cannot worship alone since they are content with so little.

The impossible happens.

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

You don't belong to you. You belong to the Universe and you're here to serve.

All sports are time control demonstrations.

A proverb is much matter distilled into few words.

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

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

I look for what needs to be done

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

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.

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

The worse the passage the more welcome the port.

'Tis not every question that deserves an answer.

...primarily the individual is going to study at home.

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

The Golden Age was never the present Age.

I always knew mum loved me - tough, look-after-yourself love, as if she knew she wouldn't always be there.

I had the constitution of a missionary.

In ways I don't entirely have the words for an experience, thought or a lesson isn't real for me until I've written down.

In general, I almost always watch foreign films.

I listen mostly to classical music.

I don't believe in creation by committee. I think it's impossible.

I recognize women are under a lot more stress today. The things you consider stress are also the blessings in your life.

I think you learn about yourself through experiences - as many of them as you can manage.

If I had ever really 'faced the facts' about myself, I never would have reached for even a zillionth of what I've managed to accomplish.

I have failed at unscripted television for five years now, so I am hopeful I can break that trend and get a good unscripted show on the air.

I am very happy making lower budgeted horror movies.

If I am lucky and find material that is interesting to me, I want to make it.

As an insecure writer, I'll finish a scene and worry there's a better version of it. Or it could be elevated somehow.

I think accessibility is what often denies horror its deserved attention. So it all depends on the execution and whether mainstream audiences can accept it.

You can't measure a dog's intelligence by giving him a verbal test 'cause it's not on their scale, but that doesn't mean they're not intelligent creatures.