Quotes About Progress

Philosophy recovers itself when it ceases to be a device for dealing with the problems of philosophers and becomes a method, cultivated by philosophers, for dealing with the problems of men.

Economists can be called the worldly philosophers for they sought to embrace in a scheme of philosophy the most worldly of man's activities-his drive for wealth.

It's new, it's improved, it's old fashioned.

Science is a cemetary of dead ideas.

Growth purely for its own sake is the philosophy of cancer.

Any avenue that you follow leads to light. All roads lead to Rome.

As you are entered with the class of Nat. philosophy, give to it the hours of lecture, but devote all your other time to Mathematics, avoiding company as the bane of all progress.

Monotheism occupies so large a space in the view of modern minds, that it is scarcely possible to form a just estimate of the preceding phases of the theological philosophy.

'Neotenty' is 'remaining young,' and it may be ironic that it is so little known, because human evolution has been dominated by it.

It's something that's very often said that philosophy, as opposed to science, never makes any progress.

Man errs as long as he strives.

The only thing constantly changing is change, and change is always changing for the worse.

We would like to have a great future, so we need to think about the urban philosophy, the urban problems, and the construction of the city. That's the new politics, maybe.

The British philosopher Bertrand Russell said that philosophy went downhill after Democritus and did not recover until the Renaissance.

Philosophy addresses, in a systematic and progress-making way, questions of deep concern to everyone.

As a universal history of philosophy, the history of philosophy must become one great unity.

Never look back' is my philosophy.

Philosophy should be an energy; it should find its aim and its effect in the amelioration of mankind.

It is time that we had uncommon schools, that we did not leave off our education when we begin to be men and women.

Education is not to be viewed as something like filling a vessel with water but, rather, assisting a flower to grow in its own way

As human beings, our first commandment is:Something needs to happen

There isn't an end point to excellence where you have it and you can stop. Being your best self means keeping on trying.

Turn an impossibility into an exciting reality.

Small changes in thought can bring massive changes in life.