Quotes About Progress

Given a decent start any girl can beat a man nowadays.

Men on their side must force themselves for a while to lay their notions by and begin to familiarize themselves with facts.

Again men have been kept back as by a kind of enchantment from progress in science by reverence for antiquity, by the authority of men counted great in philosophy, and then by general consent.

Man acquires wealth in proportion as he puts his labor to better account.

Revolution is man's normal activity, and if he is wise he will grade it slowly so that it may be almost imperceptible - otherwise it will jerk in fits and starts and cause discomfort.

Once spirit was God, then it became man, and now it is even becoming mob.

What is the ape to man? A laughing-stock or a painful embarrassment. And just that shall man be for the superman: a laughing-stock or a painful embarrassment.

The less men are fettered by tradition, the greater becomes the inward activity of their motives, and greater again in proportion to their outer restlessness.

Man must become better and more evil.

Without the errors involved in the assumptions of ethics, man would have remained an animal. Thus has he taken himself as something higher and imposed rigid laws upon himself.

Man, one may say, was never in such a completely animal condition; but he has, on the other hand, never escaped from it.

Civilization merely develops man's capacity for a greater variety of sensations, and ... absolutely nothing else.

I do not know an instance of a major mathematical advance initiated by a man past fifty

I was a great many far cries from myself.

A man is a man to the extent that he is a superman. A man should be defined by the sum of those tendencies which impel him to surpass the human condition.

The great man is not the child of his age but its step-child.

Truly, men make too little use of their lives; and so it is no wonder that the world should still be in such a poor way.

History teaches us that man learns nothing from history

If a man goes a little too far along a new road, it is usually himself that he harms more than any one else.

No one ever gets too big to make mistakes. The secret is that the big man is greater than his mistakes, because he rises right out of them and passes beyond them.

It is never the machines that are dead. It is only the mechanically-minded men that are dead.

Machinery makes men like itself.

What is the use of being a little boy if you are growing up to be a man.

Instead of the machine being a giant to which the man is the pygmy, we must at last reverse the proportions until man is a giant to whom the machine is the toy.