Quotes About Progress

the day mankind learns to profit from the lessons of history I shall look for the Second Coming.

Body neutrality is experiential and not something that happens overnight ... It's one awareness at a time, one thought at a time.

And you must know we do not really change over time; we are as flowers unfolding, we merely become more nearly ourselves.

Don't let the old story repeat itself now. Arm yourself with all that's happened.

I understand, I am just beginning, I am just beginning to understand

Roman influence seeds itself, sprouting mighty oaks right through the modern forest of computers, digital disks, microviruses and space satellites.

Our way–the Western Way–has always been a work in progress. Questions of life and death, good and evil, justice and tragedy–these are never definitively settled, but must be addressed again and again as personal and public worlds shift and change. We hold our morals to be absolutes, but the context of our actions and decisions is forever changing. We are not relativists because we seek to re-evaluate again and again our most crucial moral positions.

must somehow move to my restoration. I could not sink back in agony for that would breed but more agony. I must go on.

And we shall see for the first time since man lifted the club to strike down his brother, the world that woman would make and what woman have to teach men, and only when men can be taught will they be allowed to run free among woman again

That's our damnation," he whispered. "Our moral improvement has reached its finish, and our intellect grows by leaps and bounds.

We have the future now," she whispered. "Does it matter that we've wasted so many opportunities to meet in the past?

And we shall see for the first time since man lifted the club to strike down his brother, the world that women would make and what women have to teach men. And only when men can be taught, will they be allowed to run free among women again!

I dream the dreams of the young,' he said. 'And they are always dreams of being older, and richer, and wiser, and stronger, don't you think?

Nuestro mayor error en todo el mundo es nuestra insistencia en considerar cada nuevo acontecimiento como una culminación o un clímax.

Civilizations rise and fall, my friend,' I said. Old gods give way to new ones.

Y tienes que saber que no cambiamos con el paso del tiempo; somos como flores que se abren; simplemente nos convertimos más y más en nosotros mismos.

There are mutations, developments that the world includes but never embraces, things that have to be repudiated and rejected.

Those clothes. Impossible. I mean, tomorrow night, as they say in the twentieth century, you will lose that sweater and those pants.

none of us really changes over time; we only become more fully what we are.

Our biggest mistake worldwide is our insistence on perceiving every new development as a culmination or a climax. The great "at last" or "inth degree." A constitutional fatalism continuously adjusts itself to the ever-changing present. A pervasive alarmism greets every advance. For two thousand years we have been getting "out of hand.

The world devours the world to make the world

It was you who said that a new illumination, one of reason and ethics and genuine compassion, had come again, after dark centuries of bloody religion, to give forth not only its light but its warmth.

I wanted him for my companion, mirror of my emotions, witness of my aesthetic progress, yes, all those things. I wanted him to be the quiet and gentle Louis that I knew. And if he did not choose to go one with us, if he did in fact take his own life by walking into the sunlight, then it would be all the harder for me to continue, even with my fear.

America destroys her big houses. Some them don't even last a hundred years.