Quotes About Progress

El primer humano que insultó a su enemigo en vez de tirarle una piedra fue el fundador de la civilización

Man has, as it were, become a kind of prosthetic God. When he puts on all his auxiliary organs he is truly magnificent; but those organs have not grown on to him and they still give him much trouble at times.

Eros and Ananke [Love and Necessity] have become the parents of human civilization.

no serious book can now be sure of surviving.

The only person with whom you have to compare yourself is you in the past.

Just as the planet still circles round its Sun, yet at the same time rotates on its own axis, so the individual partakes in the development of humanity while making his own way through life.

Nor have I any reason for wishing to eliminate this evidence of my initial views. Even to-day I regard them not as errors but as valuable first approximations to knowledge which could only be fully acquired after long and continuous efforts.

la civilización todavía no ha sido capaz de difundirse en las almas de la mayoría de los hombres sin una acumulación explosiva de energías destructoras.

I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand,as in what direction we are moving.To reach the port of heaven, we must sail sometimes with the windand sometimes against it—but we must sail, and not drift, nor lie at anchor

Gustavo Solivellas dice: La humanidad progresa. La gente hoy solamente quema mis libros; siglos atrás me hubieran quemado a mí (Sigmund Freud)

Lo mejor es siempre enemigo de lo bueno

Before man, the forest; after him, the desert.

It's always good to start off anything by breaking a rule.

God only knows how much of a man there will be left of you when you take stock of yourself twenty years from now

He had spent his whole life listening to stories from the past and now he had his own, and it was slowly building chapter by chapter.

We note our place with bookmarkers That measure what we've lost.

I tend not to look back. What's done is done, good, bad or indifferent. I'm much more concerned with whatever's coming next.

I can remember everything about that moment because she gave me simple advice that guided me then, and still does to this day. 'If it's difficult for you,' she said, 'just take it all slowly. Take things step by step.

As a tool for dealing with the lows I stick to my mantra. I put one foot in front of the other and take a step. I do something – anything.

The avant-garde is now an arrière-garde.

Is nostalgia stopping our culture's ability to surge forward, or are we nostalgic precisely because our culture has stopped moving forward and so we inevitably look back to more momentous and dynamic times?

This is what we did with our time; this is how we made it Our Time.

me parece que gran parte de la ira que fue el detonante de la violencia revolucionaria se originó en la hostilidad hacia la modernización, más que en la impaciencia provocada por la rapidez de sus avances.

It is quite possible that British Intelligence demanded that Babbage keep his work secret, thus providing them with a nine-year head start over the rest of the world.