Quotes About Progress

That's how it's been happening since Jesus lost his sandals.

Everybody thought that history was like a book with a beginning, a middle, and an end. That's not how it worked. Real life was all middle.

That's how it's been happening since Jesus lost his sandals.

No one can come back and start over, but everybody can move forward and decide the ending.

For 'historical' means 'subject to time' (p. 242).

Theology must have the character of a living procession.

We are a race of heroes who have outlived the age of heroes!

Fashion is about going ahead, not about memory.

Fashion is about two things: the evolution and the opposite.

I'm never content with what I do. I live in a sort of permanent dissatisfaction. I think that's the secret to doing things well.

change is the healthiest way to survive

Success nullifies. You then have to do it again, preferably differently

There is nothing worse than bringing up the 'good old days.' To me, that's the ultimate acknowledgment of failure.

I am a machine condemned to devour books.

Merely quantitative differences, beyond a certain point, pass into qualitative changes.

Philosophers have hitherto only interpreted the world in various ways; the point, however, is to change it.

Man makes his own history, but he does not make it out of the whole cloth; he does not make it out of conditions chosen by himself, but out of such as he finds close at hand.

In history as in nature, decay is the laboratory of life.

Men make their own history, but they do not make it as they please; they do not make it under self-selected circumstances, but under circumstances existing already, given and transmitted from the past. The tradition of all dead generations weighs like a nightmare on the brains of the living.

The windmill gives you society with the feudal lord; the steam mill, society with the industrial capitalist

In 1642 the modern world was born.

Everyone who knows anything of history also knows that great social revolutions are impossible without the feminine ferment. Social progress may be measured precisely by the social position of the fair sex (plain ones included).

The less the skill and exertion of strength implied in manual labour, in other words, the more modern industry becomes developed, the more is the labour of men superseded by that of women. Differences of age and sex have no longer any distinctive social validity for the working class. All are instruments of labour, more or less expensive to use, according to their age and sex.

Men make their own history, but they do not make it as they please.