Quotes About Progress

The Renaissance established the dignity of man. The Industrial Revolution established the unity of nature. That

Weder Seele noch Gehirn der Menschen haben in historischen Zeiten erweislich zugenommen, die Fähigkeiten jedenfalls waren längst komplett! Daher ist unsere Präsumption, im Zeitalter des sittlichen Fortschritts zu leben, höchst lächerlich

That is, when one realizes the fact of a descent or degradation and corrects its causes, this itself causes an ascent to a level even higher and greater than the original one.

In the desert we say Make haste slowly.

And somewhere along the way, I found a little bit of healing. It wasn't enough to undo all of the damage done to me when I was a child; that, I think, cuts too deep. But enough.

Without change, there can be no growth; and without growth, we stagnate and die.

A noi mortali, purtroppo, è negato il lusso della licenza narrativa: dobbiamo vivere e andare avanti.

Do not measure the number of tragedies you suffer, quantify the success derived from the.

It's not enough to say that you want equality, Ro. What do you intend to do about it?

over several weeks, so during that

It could be argued that we leave everything most loved with each new experience that demands we grow.

You've got to just accept what has happened and get on with it… If you go back over every single decision that led to that moment… You'll never get better. You'll always be in that moment.

The center is where balance resides, and if you're not in balance, you cannot expect to continue moving forward without a fall.

Yet, despite the pressures of being a sole proprietor, Maisie knew that the curtain of darkness from her past was lifting. Not that she forgot, not that she didn't still have nightmares or close her eyes and see images from the war in stark relief. But it was as if she were on firmer ground, and not at the mercy of memory's quicksand.

Perhaps we must allow ourselves to be brought gently into the future by the good times, taking those dear memories with us and not allowing the worst of times to hold us in its grip—to hold us back, really." Dame

That's not necessarily a bad thing, is it? You bring old events and choices to the surface, and you change the vista—but spring will come, the soil will seed itself, that flood or drought will abate, and life goes on in that new landscape.

Do your work with a light step. Run your fingers across the weaving of knowledge you've gathered. Then you will be successful.

Time comes to us softly, slowly. It sits beside us for a while. Then, long before we are ready, it moves on.

The empty swing set reminds us of this-- that bad won't be bad forever, and what is good can sometimes last a long, long time.

Nothing essential happens in the absence of noise.

The Modern Era was to be one of plans and proposals, which is to say futurist to the point of bigotry.

Society hardly ever follows its blueprint, a fact that makes comparisons extremely difficult and judgments more than usually fallible.

Technique has taken over the whole of civilization. Death, procreation, birth all submit to technical efficiency and systemization.

Despite the conviction that our era is revolutionary, we must also recognize that under the appearance of movement and development we are in fact living in complete stasis. There is undoubtedly much chaos and violence, there is technical progress, there are social and political experiments. But in reality our world is static, because its structures remain absolutely fixed and its development unfolds along a completely expected rather than revolutionary path.