Quotes About Progress

I have learned to walk: since then I have run. I have learned to fly: since then I do not have to be pushed in order to move. Now I am nimble, now I fly, now I see myself under myself, now a god dances within me.

My humanity is a constant self-overcoming.

Every talent must unfold itself in fighting.

The consequences of our actions take hold of us, quite indifferent to our claim that meanwhile we have 'improved.

Not every end is the goal. The end of a melody is not its goal,  and yet if  a melody has not  reached its end, it has not reached its goal.

On the mountains of truth you can never climb in vain: either you will reach a point higher up today, or you will be training your powers so that you will be able to climb higher tomorrow. -

You have evolved from worm to man, but much within you is still worm. Once you were apes, yet even now man is more of an ape than any of the apes.

And life confided the secret to me: behold, it said, l am that which must always overcome itself.

Man... cannot learn to forget, but hangs on the past: however far or fast he runs, that chain runs with him.

the process of evolution does not necessarily mean elevation, enhancement, strengthening.

The good men of every age are those who go to the roots of the old thoughts and bear fruit with them.

People have always wanted to 'improve' human beings; for the most part, this has been called morality.

A degree of culture, and assuredly a very high one, is attained when man rises above superstitions and religious notions and fears, and, for instance, no longer believes in guardian angels or in original sin, and has also ceased to talk of the salvation of his soul.

Human existence basically is??a never to be completed imperfect tense.

Mankind ought constantly to be striving to produce Great Men --this and nothing else is its duty

The noble man wants to create something new and a new virtue. The good want the old, and that old should be preserved.

I love all those who are heavy drops falling from the dark cloud that hangs over men: they herald the advent of lightning, and, as heralds, they perish.

It is not the victory of science that distinguishes our nineteenth century, but the victory of scientific method over science.

Just as in the second part of a verse bad poets seek a thought to fit their rhyme, so in the second half of their lives people tend to become more anxious about finding actions, positions, relationships that fit those of their earlier lives, so that everything harmonizes quite well on the surface: but their lives are no longer ruled by a strong thought, and instead, in its place, comes the intention of finding a rhyme.

Our way is upward, from the species across to the super-species. But the degenerate mind which says 'All for me' is a horror to us.

Pity thwarts the whole law of evolution, which is the law of natural selection. It preserves whatever is ripe for destruction;

That which now calls itself democracy differs from older forms of government solely in that it drives with new horses: the streets are still the same old streets, and the wheels are likewise the same old wheels.

All beings so far have created something beyond themselves

That which is ready to fall, shall ye also push!