Quotes About Progress

Evolution is dismissive of the eternity of moral duty and moral laws.

Evolution is a great word but it turns its back on difficulties and sums up a rich and complicated reality under a vague formula.

everything we value in this life is inseparably connected with the future.

All worldviews, therefore, end in an eschatology and all efforts at reformation are animated by faith in the future.

What history gives us leaves upon us, on the contrary, the impression of decadence rather than of an advancing civilization.

When we go back as far as possible to the origins we find a human nature which already contains everything which it later on produces out of itself.

The notion that all peoples are on the road to progress is as incorrect as that they are continuously declining and degenerating.

The doctrine of evolution thus takes the place of the old religion in the modern man.320It is no science; it does not rest on undeniable facts; it has often in the past and in the present been contradicted by the facts. But that does not matter; miracle is the dearest child of faith.

If there ever is to be a blessed humanity it must be preceded by a radical change in human nature.

328An optimism which is exclusively built on evolution is always transmuted into pessimism if one ponders a little more deeply.

Vrouwen hebben niet genoeg verstand om optimaal te profiteren van het feminisme.

My great great grandparents were slaves. And now I'm running for president of the United States. Is this a great country or what?!

The problem with the World Bank has to do with development - the spreading of Western over-consumption worldwide.

Future progress simply must be made in terms of the things that really count rather than the things that are merely countable.

Growth economics gave technology free rein. Steady-state economics channels technical progress in the socially benign directions of small scale, decentralization, increased durability of products, and increased long-run efficiency in the use of scarce resources.

The Past is the textbook of tyrants; the Future the Bible of the Free. Those who are solely governed by the Past stand like Lot's wife, crystallized in the act of looking backward, and forever incapable of looking before.

If Luther's day expand to Darwin's year,Shall that exclude the hope—foreclose the fear?

The poor old Past,The Future's slave.

Herman Parish

Life is made up of many comings and goings and for everything that we take with us,we must leave something behind

Psychology has a long past, but only a short history.

In most sciences one generation tears down what another has built and what one has established another undoes. In mathematics alone each generations adds a new story to the old structure.

We are not going in circles, we are going upwards. The path is a spiral; we have already climbed many steps.

Without words, without writing and without books there would be no history, there could be no concept of humanity.