Quotes About Progress

It is one of the poignant anxieties of the thinker that he sees the shadow resting on the human soul, and that he gropes in darkness without being able to awaken that slumbering Progress.

Man is the second.

This very slight change had worked a revolution.

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Revolution cannot really be conquered... If you wish to understand what Revolution is, call it Progress; and if you wish to understand what Progress is, call it Tomorrow. Tomorrow performs its work irresistibly, and it does it from today.

To subdue matter is the first step; to realize the ideal is the second.

To-morrow fulfils its work irresistibly, and it is already fulfilling it to-day. It

Justice has its anger, Monsieur Bishop, and the wrath of justice is an element of progress. No matter what they say, the French Revolution is the greatest advance taken by mankind since the coming of Christ.

If you wish to gain an idea of what revolution is, call it Progress; and if you wish to acquire an idea of the nature of progress, call it To-morrow. To-morrow fulfils its work irresistibly, and it is already fulfilling it to-day. It

Let that vile sand which you trample under foot be cast into the furnace, let it melt and seethe there, it will become a splendid crystal, and it is thanks to it that Galileo and Newton will discover stars.

To destroy abuses is not sufficient; customs must be modified. The mill is there no longer; the wind is still there.

It was the beginning of the end.

To-morrow fulfils its work irresistibly, and it is already fulfilling it to-day.

Yes, the brutalities of progress are called revolutions. When they are over, men recognize that the human race has been harshly treated but that it has moved forward.

The real human division is this: the luminous and the shady. To diminish the number of the shady, to augment the number of the luminous,—that is the object. That is why we cry: Education! science! To teach reading, means to light the fire; every syllable spelled out sparkles.

Errors make excellent projectiles.

Whatever To-day may be, To-morrow will be peace.

Il vient une heure où protester ne suffit plus : après la philosophie, il faut l'action.

Que faut-il pour faire évanouir ces larves? de la lumière. De la lumière à flots. Pas une chauve-souris ne résiste à l'aube. Éclairez la société en dessous.

Cultiven la cabeza del hombre del pueblo, quítenle las malas hierbas, riéguenla, fecúndenla, ilumínenla, llénenla de moralidad, utilícenla: así no tendrán que cortarla

There is nothing like the hand of the populace for building everything that is built by demolishing.

Por qué aquella desmesurada carreta ocupaba aquel sitio en la calle? Lo primero para obstruirla, y lo segundo para que se acabara de enmohecer. En el viejo orden social hay también una porción de instituciones que ocupan del mismo modo la vía pública, y que tampoco tienen otras razones para estar en ella.

The only social peril is darkness.

The book which the reader has under his eye at this moment is, from one end to the other, as a whole and in detail, whatever may be its intermittences, exceptions and faults, the march from evil to good, from the unjust to the just, from night to day, from appetite to conscience, from rottenness to life, from hell to heaven, from nothingness to God. Point of departure: matter; point of arrival: the soul. The hydra at the beginning, the angel at the end." Volume V, Book I, Chapter XX This