Quotes About Progress

Now mark me well—it is provided in the essence of things, that from any fruition of success, no matter what, shall come forth something to make a greater struggle necessary.' —WALT WHITMAN, The Open Road.

Mankind has never been in this position before. Without having improved appreciably in virtue or enjoying wiser guidance, it has got into its hands for the first time the tools by which it can unfailingly accomplish its own extermination.

as the acorn is nourished by the dead leaves of the oak, the hope strengthens that the rise and fall of men and their movements are only the changing foliage of the ever-growing tree of life

I look forward to a United States of Europe in which the barriers between the nations will be greatly minimised and unrestricted travel will be possible.

Unteachable from infancy to tomb—There is the first and main characteristic of mankind.

The veils of the future are lifted one by one, and mortals must act from day to day.

Las ciencias mecánicas ofrecen en tierra, en el aire, en las costas, posibilidades ilimitadas de novedad y de sorpresa, salidas de la forja o del laboratorio.

if it was not passed, the docks, which already have become obsolescent, will have to be allowed to obsolesce into obsoleteness.

Lord Curzon quotes a great French agnostic and adopts his phrase: "All civilisations are the work of aristocracies." It would be much more true to say that the upkeep of aristocracy has been the hard work of all civilisations.

Los hombres del comienzo no deben ser juzgados completamente bajo la luz del fin. Tenía que aprenderse todo; tenía que sufrirse todo. Pero los que aprendieron más lentamente no fueron los que tenían que sufrir más.

You cannot afford to indulge even for the shortest period of time in resting on your oars. You must continually drive the vast machine forward at its utmost speed. To lose momentum is not merely to stop, but to fall.

Burke's dictum, "If I cannot have reform without injustice, I will not have reform.

They say the first sentence in any speech is always the hardest. Well, that one's behind me, anyway.

Me parece que solo será a partir de la próxima generación cuando caminar se convierta en algo vanguardista.

The price, after all, for not having died already goes up not in leaps but step by step, and he would pay that price, too.

So poets keep on trying, and sooner or later the consecutive results of their self-dissatisfaction are clipped together with a giant paperclip by literary historians and called their "oeuvres." I

Girls can do anything these days.

Rewolucja polega na przezwyci??eniu odziedziczonej ?wiadomo?ci

An der technischen Entwicklung der Dampfmaschine im 18. Jahrhundert läßt sich der Prozess der Emanzipation der modernen Produktionsweise von den Schranken der organischen Natur verfolgen.

From Spanish conquistadores to the propagandists for the American Way of Life, the New World has been hymned as a potential paradise. The paradise that the Middle Ages had sought became secularized as the land of unlimited possibilities.

Me interesa el futuro porque es el sitio donde voy a pasar el resto de mi vida

Faire son chemin dans la vie n'est pas simple et tout ce qui peut marcher sans nuire à autrui est une bonne chose

El experimento del profesor Kugelmass -Señor Kugelmass, lo peor que puede usted hacer es ignorar la realidad. Limítese a declarar aquí sus pensamientos, y los dos juntos lo analizaremos. Ya lleva usted en tratamiento un tiempo suficiente como para saber que nadie se cura de la noche a la mañana. Después de todo, yo soy analista, no mago. -Entonces lo que necesito quizás es un mago -exclamó Kugelmass, levantándose. Y con eso dio por terminada su terapia.

Se di tanto in tanto non hai degli insuccessi, è segno che non stai facendo nulla di davvero innovativo.