Quotes About Progress

Time and tides wait for none

Yesterday is never as good as right now so enjoy every moment of the journey into TOMORROW.

Direction is not of any use to a person who is not moving. God

Many people have sighed for the 'good old days' and regretted the 'passing of the horse,' but today, when only those who like horses own them, it is a far better time for horses.

And, if there's one thing I've learned about life, it's that if you just put one foot on the road you'd like to travel, pretty soon you find yourself arriving there.

I didn't know what to do next. Doing something is always the best way to think

Every new source from which man has increased his power on earth has been used to diminish the prospects of his successors. All his progress has been made at the expense of damage to his environment which he cannot repair and could not foresee.

when all is said and done, our own existence is an experiment of nature, an attempt at a new synthesis.

Man needs difficulties; they are necessary for health.

If a blind man can gradually be helped to see it is not to be expected that he will at once discern new truths with an eagle eye. One must be glad if he sees anything at all, and if he begins to understand what he sees.

Am I a combination of the lives of these ancestors and do I embody these lives again? Have I lived before in the past as a specific personality, and did I progress so far in that life that I am now able to seek a solution? I do not know. Buddha left the question open, and I like to assume that he himself did not know with certainty. In the meantime it is important to ensure that I do not stand at the end with empty hands.

Only the man who has outgrown the stages of consciousness belonging to the past, and has amply fulfilled the duties appointed for him by his world, can achieve full consciousness of the present. To do this he must be sound and proficient in the best sense--a man who as achieved as much as other people, and even a little more. It is these qualities which enable him to gain the next highest level of consciousness.

Our past thinking has determined our present status, and our present thinking will determine our future status; for man is what man thinks.

I had to follow the ineradicable foolishness which furnishes the steps to true wisdom.

Culture lies beyond the purpose of nature.

In fact, the terrors that stem from our elaborate civilization may be far more threatening than those that primitive people attribute to demons. The

Whoever protects himself against what is new and strange and thereby regresses to the past, falls into the same neurotic condition as the man who identifies himself with the new and runs away from the past.

Such a revolution of one's world, and of the world in general, threw its shadows ahead

As any change must begin somewhere, it is the single individual who will experience it and carry it through. The change must indeed begin with an individual; it might be any one of us. Nobody can afford to look around and to wait for somebody else to do what he is loath to do himself.

Our intellect has created a new world that dominates nature, and has populated it with monstrous machines.

I have observed that a life directed to an aim is in general better, richer, and healthier than an aimless one, and that it is better to go forwards with the stream of time than backwards against it.

El público culto -flor y nata de nuestra civilización actual- hállase un tanto separado de sus raíces y en vías de perder su conexión con la tierra.

There is one more point to be made. The spirit of the age is in constant movement. It is like a river that flows on, invisibly but surely, and given the momentum of life in our century, even 10 years is a long time.

Psychologically you develop in a spiral, you always come over the same point where you have been before, but it is never exactly the same, it is either above or below. A patient will say, 'I am just at the place where I was three years ago,' but I say, 'At least you have travelled three years.