Quotes About Progress

If you cry "Forward," you must make plain in what direction to go.

Man has been endowed with reason, with the power to create, so that he can add to what he's been given. But up to now he hasn't been a creator, only a destroyer. Forests keep disappearing, rivers dry up, wild life's become extinct, the climate's ruined and the land grows poorer and uglier every day.

We stand at an immense fork in the raod. One way is the path of generosity, dignity and a respect for other races and customs; the other leads most certainly to greed, suspicion, hatered and the old, bloody course of violence and waste - and now, God help us, to the very destruction of all the struggles and triumphs of the human race on this earth. My old friends and fellow townsmen: which will it be?

Man has been endowed with reason, with the power to create, so that he can add to what he's been given. But up to now he hasn't been a creator, only a destroyer. Forests keep disappearing, rivers dry up, wild life's become extinct, and the climate's ruined and the land grows poorer and uglier every day.

My advantage as a woman and a human being has been in having a mother who believed strongly in women's education. She was an early undergraduate at Oxford, and her own mother was a doctor.

I'm doing a thousand new things in spite of myself," he said. "It's not easy, you know, to jump over your shadow.

In the 1920s and 1930s Germany was the leader of the world in most areas you could name—the physical sciences, historical scholarship, music, philosophy, public education. The most sobering fact about the Holocaust is that it was there, and not in some backward, underdeveloped country, that it occurred.

It was an honor and privilege to arrive to this country 16 years ago with almost no money in my pocket. A lot has happened since then.

Experience can only be achieved from mistakes, mistakes can only be achieved from stupidity, and stupidity can only be achieved from experience.

Sed revolucionarios sin preconizar incoherencias, afanaos en cualquier revolución que no sea regresiva; reconoced la espontaneidad de la naturaleza, y confiad en la libertad humana como cauce primario para mejorar nuestra suerte. Mucho mejor que confiaros a tutelas dirigistas, delegando vuestra responsabilidad en timoneles mesiánicos, defended unas reglas de juego que creen libertad en vez de recortarla.

El optimismo occidental parte de confiar en la evolución, aunque dicho proceso sea puro riesgo.

De ángel en ángel vamos, de ala en ala

Al fin y al cabo, la Historia, como viene a decir el autor del manuscrito carmesí, no es más que una larga carrera de relevos: sabemos de dónde viene y por dónde transcurre, pero, en último término, no adónde se dirige, ni cuándo concluirá.

History is at once freedom and necessity.

The crisis consists precisely in the fact that the old is dying and the new cannot be born

The crisis consists precisely in the fact that the old is dying and the new cannot be born; in this interregnum a great variety of morbid symptoms appear.

Il vecchio mondo sta morendo. Quello nuovo tarda a comparire. E in questo chiaroscuro nascono i mostri.

Wayfarer, there is no way,you make the way as you go.As you go, you make the wayand stopping to look behind,you see the path that your feetwill never travel again.Wayfarer, there is no way—only foam trails in the sea.

Traveller, your footprints Are the path and nothing more; Traveller, there is no path, The path is made by walking. By walking the path is made And when you look back You'll see a road Never to be trodden again.

Caminante no hay camino, se hace camino al andar.

Todo pasa y todo queda, / Pero lo nuestro es pasar, / Pasar haciendo caminos,/ Caminos sobre el mar.

Pathmaker, there is no path. We make the path by walking." Caminante, no hay camino.... Se hace camino al andar.

Cuatro principios a tener en cuenta: Lo contrario es también frecuente. No basta mover para renovar. No basta renovar para mejorar. No hay nada que sea absolutamente empeorable

PROVERBIOS Y CANTARES XXIX Caminante, son tus huellas el camino, y nada más; caminante, no hay camino, se hace camino al andar. Al andar se hace camino, y al volver la vista atrás se ve la senda que nunca se ha de volver a pisar. Caminante, no hay camino, sino estelas en la mar.