Quotes About Progress

Not every end is the goal. The end of a melody is not its goal; and yet: as long as the melody has not reached its end, it also hasn't reached its goal. A parable.

I found life easy, easiest, when it demanded the most difficult things of me.

All beings so far have created something beyond themselves. Do you want to be the ebb of that great tide, and revert back to the beast rather than surpass mankind? What is the ape to a man? A laughing-stock, a thing of shame. And just so shall a man be to the Superman: a laughing-stock, a thing of shame. 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.

Man vergibt seinem Lehrer schlecht, wenn man immer nur der Schüler bleibt. (One repays a teacher badly if one always remains nothing but a pupil.)

You have made your way from worm to man, and much in you is still worm.

Benditos sean los olvidadizos pues superan, incluso, sus propios errores

Each individual represents the whole course of Evolution and he is not, as morals teach, something that begins at his birth.

It is not true that the unconscious goal in the evolution of every conscious being (animal, man, mankind, etc) is its 'highest happiness': the case, on the contrary, is that every stage of evolution possesses a special and incomparable happiness neither higher nor lower but simply its own. Evolution does not have happiness in view, but evolution and nothing else.

All history is the experimental refutation of the theory of the so-called moral order of things.

Don't ask, How will I climb the mountain, just climb the mountain.

We have already gone beyond whatever we have words for.

Whoever reaches his ideal transcends it eo ipso.

What is happiness? The feeling that power is growing, that resistance is overcome.

I learned to walk; since then I have let myself run. I learned to fly; since then I do not need pushing in order to move from a spot.

Con ng??i là má»™t cái gì Ä'ó c?n ph?i v??t qua.

I transform myself to fast: my today refutes my yesterday.

He who strays from tradition becomes a sacrifice to the extraordinary; he who remains in tradition is its slave. Destruction follows in any case.

The word of the past is an oracle uttered. Only as builders of the future, as knowing the present, will you understand it.

Do you believe then that the sciences would ever have arisen and become great if there had not beforehand been magicians, alchemists, astrologers and wizards, who thirsted and hungered after abscondite and forbidden powers?

This however is my teaching: he who wishes one day to fly, must first learn standing and walking and running and climbing and dancing:- one does not fly into flying!

Even now man is more of an ape than any of the apes.

Since I grew weary of the search I taught myself to find instead Since cross winds caused my ship to lurch I sail with all winds straight ahead.

Consciousness is the last and latest development of the organic and hence also what is most unfinished and unstrong.

I make for my goal, I follow my course; over the loitering and tardy will I leap. Thus let my on-going be their down-going!