Quotes About Progress

Our path leads to the threshold of maturity. Once you arrive at it, you are also worthy of receiving that gift. In either case, you will have become a phoenix: it is up to you to get there by force.

All people have the mission of overcoming themselves. Anyone who is overcome by others has failed in his mission; anyone who fails in his mission will be overcome by others. If one overcomes oneself, other people don't notice; if, however, one overcomes others, then the sky turns red and the man in the streets calls the phenomenon progress.

I have not let myself be stultified by science, whose highest goal is to furnish a `waiting room', which it would be best to tear down.

Whoever would rise, must first descend, for only then can the bottommost rise to the top.

The more humanity advances, the more it is degraded.

The future is the worst thing about the present.

Life must be a constant education one must learn everything, from speaking to dying.

Our ignorance of history makes us libel to our own times. People have always been like this.

Perfection is the enemy of the good.

The memorable events of history are the visible effects of the invisible changes of human thought.

Certainly it is possible that the advent to power of the masses marks one of the last stages of Western civilisation, a complete return to those periods of confused anarchy which seem always destined to precede the birth of every new society.

To pass in pursuit of an ideal from the barbarous to the civilised state, and then, when this ideal has lost its virtue, to decline and die, such is the cycle of the life of a people.

Sans les traditions, pas de civilisation; sans la destruction de ces traditions, pas de progrès.....Ce n'est pas dans les temples qu'habitent les idoles les plus redoutables, ni dans les palais les tyrans les plus despotiques; ceux_ci peuvent être brisés en un instant; mais les maîtres invisibles qui règnent dans nos âmes échappent à tout effort de révolte, et ne cèdent qu'à la lente usure des siècles

Notwithstanding all its progress, philosophy has been unable as yet to offer the masses any ideal that can charm them; but, as they must have their illusions at all cost, they turn instinctively, as the insect seeks the light, to the rhetoricians who accord them what they want. Not truth, but error has always been the chief factor in the evolution of nations,

Ng??i ta ?ã xây d?ng nhi?u ??n ?ài, nhi?u t??ng, nhi?u bàn th? nh?t cho nh?ng ng??i sáng t?o ra các ?o t??ng.(...) Không có ?o t??ng, con ng??i s? không th? thoát ra kh?i tình tr?ng dã man nguyên th?y, và n?u không còn chúng, con ng??i s? s?m r?i vào tình tr?ng ?y.

As long as science fails to discover the sources of life, as long as, on sea or in the sky, there is an abyss that is resistant to mathematical reckoning, as long as mankind in its steady progress is ignorant of where it's heading, as long as a mystery exists for man, there will be poetry!

Mientras la humanidad siempre avanzando, No sepa a do camina; Mientras haya un misterio para el hombre, ¡Habrá poesía!

Your life depends on a random stranger who could kill you, will probably disrespect you, and will most likely pay you much less than you deserve. But even those prospects are better than the ones you used to have. This is the life of los jornaleros – the day laborers.

But I can divine one thing: in Mexican food's rumble through this country, in the trail behind and the road ahead, I see us -- always evolving, never stagnant, continually striving for something better, constantly delicious. The American spirit manifested as a combo plate, heavy on the salsa.

History is no longer as it was for the Greeks, an anamnesis, a remembrance. It is rather a thrust into the future.

nothing now exists that is so valuable as whatever theoretically might replace it.

Ideas improve. The meaning of words participates in the improvement. Plagiarism is necessary. Progress implies it. It embraces an author's phrase, makes use of his expressions, erases a false idea, and replaces it with the right idea.

there is an inverse correlation between the complexity of society and of word structure!

without these much maligned forces of destruction, language would never have developed in the first place.