Quotes About Progress

The past was only tolerable if one felt above it, instead of having to stare stupidly at it aware of one's present impotence.

La maldad, señor, es el espíritu de la crítica, y la crítica es el origen del progreso y la ilustración.

?aden nastrój nie mo?e oprze? siÄ™ zwyciÄ™sko biegowi godzin.

Le temps est un don des dieux, prêté à l'homme pour qu'il en tire parti, pour qu'il en tire un parti utile, ingénieur, au service du progrès de l'humanité.

Where uniformity reigns, movement from point to point is no longer movement; and where movement is no longer movement, there is no time.

Ich wiederhole: Der Fortschritt hat alles für sich. Nur scheinbar ist er die Opposition. Der erhaltende Gegenwille ist es, der in Wahrheit immer und überall die Opposition bildet, der sich in der Verteidigung befindet und zwar in einer, wie er genau weiss, aussichtslosen Verteidigung.

Art's vital need for revolutionary progress and achievement of the new depends on the vehicle of the strongest subjective sense for what is hackneyed, for what has nothing more to say, for those standard, normal means that have now become 'impossible'.

Richard Wagner once declared that civilization disappears before music like mist before the sun. he never dreamed that one day, for its part, music would disappear before civilization, before democracy, like mist before the sun.

We do not want to be beginners. But let us be convinced of the fact that we will never be anything else but beginners, all our life!

Stagnation and inactivity bring spiritual death.

In one sense we are always travelling, and travelling as if we did not know where we were going. In another sense we have already arrived.

Let us, therefore, learn to pass from one imperfect activity to another without worrying too much about what we are missing. It is true that we make many mistakes. But the biggest of them all is to be surprised at them: as if we had some hope of never making any.

The Breviary was hard to learn, and every step was labor and confusion, not to mention the mistakes and perplexities I got myself into. However

Time makes more converts than reason.

You can only cruse the boulevards of regret so far, and then you've got to get back up onto the freeway again.

You can only cruise the boulevards of regret so far, and then you've got to get back up onto the freeway again.

What is most appealing about young folks, after all, is the changes, not the still photograph of finished character but the movie, the soul in flux.

When power corrupts, it keeps a log of its progress, written into that most sensitive memory device, the human face.

Someday it'll all be done by machine. Information machines.

When power corrupts, it keeps a log of its progress, written into that most sensitive memory device, the human face. Who could withstand the light? What viewer could believe in the war, the system, the countless lies about American freedom, looking into these mugs shots of the bought and sold?

All this home-computer gaming, Nintendo 64, PlayStation, now this Xbox thing, maybe I just want the boys to see what blowing aliens away was like in the olden days.

But as we all know, rock 'n' roll will never die, and education too, as Henry Adams always sez, keeps going on forever.

Yep, and your Internet was their invention, this magical convenience that creeps now like a smell through the smallest details of our lives, the shopping, the housework, the homework, the taxes, absorbing our energy, eating up our precious time. And there's no innocence. Anywhere. Never was. It was conceived in sin, the worst possible. As it kept growing, it never stopped carrying in its heart a bitter-cold death wish for the planet, and don't think anything has changed, kid.

What's known as bleeding-edge technology," sez Lucas. "No proven use, high risk, something only early-adoption addicts feel comfortable with.