Quotes About Progress

Meanwhile, new ideas crept like a damp stain into the very fabric of Tang culture, casting a shadow across the world of the old aristocratic clans that had survived.

increasingly short periods of time—first 1,200 years, then less than 600 years, then less than 125 years, then 50 years.

It was amazing how fast things were accomplished in a society run by commercial concerns and not much else.

They cannot see that our sociological assumption is that such systems must not be allowed to exist, no matter the real or perceived benefits. They are continuing to attempt to fix what we consider unfixable and have abandoned.

It is a sign of contraction of the mind when it is content, or of weariness. A spirited mind never stops within itself it is always aspiring and going beyond its strength.

Wonder is the foundation of all philosophy, inquiry the progress, ignorance the end.

How many things which served us yesterday as articles of faith, are fables for us today.

As the archaeology of our thought easily shows, man is an invention of recent date. And one perhaps nearing its end.

I don't feel that it is necessary to know exactly what I am. The main interest in life and work is to become someone else that you were not in the beginning.

I'm no prophet. My job is making windows where there were once walls.

The 'Enlightenment', which discovered the liberties, also invented the disciplines.

Do not ask who I am and do not ask me to remain the same.

Justice must always question itself, just as society can exist only by means of the work it does on itself and on its institutions.

The beauty of doing film is that you construct whatever you do block by block and you can build something that will stay.

The academic study of literature leads basically nowhere, as we all know

But it remains the case that, on the level of consumption, the preeminence of the twentieth century was indisputable: nothing.

As soon as the genome had been cmpletely decoded (which would be in a matter of months) humanity would have complete control of its evolution; when that happened sexuality would be seen for what it really was: a useless, dangerous, and regressive function.

Las relaciones humanas se vuelven progresivamente imposibles, lo cual reduce otro tanto la cantidad de anécdotas de las que se compone una vida. Y poco a poco aparece el rostro de la muerte, en todo su esplendor.

Toynbee's idea that civilizations die not by murder but by suicide.

Incluso podríamos poner en tela de juicio el progreso científico y tecnológico, por ejemplo, tener la impresión de que la mejora de las técnicas médicas se paga con un aumento del control social y una disminución global de la alegría de vivir.

Visas pasules kaps?t?s nesen mirušie cilv?ki savos z?rkos turpin?ja netrauc?ti sadal?ties un pamaz?m p?rv?rsties par ?inde?iem.

Het nieuwe ontstaat nooit eenvoudigweg door interpolatie van het oude.

Es un poco la posdemocracia, si quieres, pero hoy todo el mundo hace eso, es lo único que funciona, la democracia como sistema está muerta, es demasiado lenta, demasiado pesada.

Ce n'était plus Nirvana, mais Radiohead.