Quotes About Progress

Without man and his potential for moral progress, the whole of reality would be a mere wilderness, a thing in vain, and have no final purpose.

The philosophy of one century is the common sense of the next.

Barbarism is needed every four or five hundred years to bring the world back to life. Otherwise it would die of civilization.

It's a rite of passage for the everyman, to a higher ground.

All the progress we have made in philosophy ... is the result of that methodical skepticism which is the element of human freedom.

The essence of Africa's crises is fundamentally it's extreme poverty.

Life has a funny way of helping you out when you think that everything's gone wrong.

There's only one day at a time here, then it's tonight and then tomorrow will be today again.

Life is a maze of doors and they all open from the side you're on. Just keep on pushing hard boy, try as you may, you're going to wind up where you started from.

Life's gonna run you over if you don't get goin.

Philosophies fall away like sand, and creeds follow on another like the withered leaves of Autumn.

I remain convinced that obstinate addiction to ordinary language in our private thoughts is one of the main obstacles to progress in philosophy.

Good Governance cannot remain merely a philosophy. Concrete steps have to be taken for realizing its goals.

We have learned to live in a world of mistakes and defective products as if they were necessary to life. It is time to adopt a new philosophy in America.

All great ideas are dangerous.

Philosophy studies the world, but the point is to change it.

When I read philosophy or neuroscience papers about consciousness, I don't get the sense we're any closer to understanding it than we were 50 years ago.

No reality transforms itself.

The march of invention has clothed mankind with powers of which a century ago the boldest imagination could not have dreamt.

Comfort is the only thing our civilization can give us.

Some experiences are mis-educative. Any experience is mis-educative that has the effect of arresting or distorting the growth of further experience.

Don't dwell on what has passed away or what is yet to be.

There can be no progress-real, moral prgress-except in the individual and by the individual himself.

The most important thing about a technology is how it changes people.