Quotes About Progress

Once you were apes, and even now, too, man is more ape than any ape.

One who reaches his ideal has by so doing gone beyond it.

There are so many futures still to dawn!

It is precisely he who is becoming who cannot endure the state of becoming.

the way the Americans strive for gold; and their breathless haste in working - the true vice of the new world.

What is new, however, is always evil, being that which wants to conquer and overthrow the old boundary markers and the old pieties; and only what is old is good. The good men are in all ages those who dig the old thoughts, digging deep and getting them to bear fruit - the farmers of the spirit. But eventually all land is depleted, and the ploughshare of evil must come again and again.

art it is easier to go over to a really emancipating philosophical science.

You are treading your path of greatness: now it must call up all your courage that there is no longer a path behind you! You are treading your path of greatness: no one shall steal after you here! Your foot itself has extinguished the path behind you, and above that path stands written: Impossibility.

It is out of the deepest depth that the highest must come to its height

Only those who continue to change remain my kin

at the age of thirty, when it comes to high culture, one is a beginner, a child.—

It is important to accept that the world is not in any way striving toward a stable condition, equilibrium or eternal sunshine.

The Germans invented gunpowder—all credit to them! but they again made things square—they invented printing.)

Man is something that shall be overcome. Man is a rope, tied between beast and overman — a rope over an abyss. What is great in man is that he is a bridge and not an end.

Just as the decay of last year's fallen leaves provides nutrients for new growth this spring, some institutions must be allowed to decline and decay, so that their capital and human talents can be released and recycled to create new organizations.

As for civilization, it stinks.

In England we agonised over the demolition of every old shack; in Sichuan, they just went ahead and flattened whole cities! You had to admire the brazen confidence of it, the conviction that the future would be better than the past.

Very often we call something modern because we do not know what is ancient; many so-called "modern" ideas are really old errors with new labels.

The term science means something quite different for our generation than it did not so many generations ago.

He who does not advance in perfection falls into imperfection. An unattended garden becomes full of weeds. Things do not remain the same by being left alone. White fences do not stay white; they gradually become gray and then black. There are no planes in the spiritual life. We go uphill or we go downhill. The moment we cease to row against the stream, the current carries us down river.

La prétendue baguette des fées était moins puissante que ne l'est aujourd'hui la science des hommes.

Justice limps along, but gets there all the same.

Horses frighten me as much as chickens do,' he said. 'That is too bad, because lack of communication with horses has impeded human progress,' said Abrenuncio. 'If we ever broke down the barriers, we could produce the centaur.

He thought that the world would make more rapid progress without the burden of old people.