Quotes About Progress

The history of thought may be summed up in these words: it is absurd by what it seeks and great by what it finds.

A work is never completed except by some accident such as weariness, satisfaction, the need to deliver, or death: for, in relation to who or what is making it, it can only be one stage in a series of inner transformations.

What is more important than the meal? Doesn't the least observant man-about-town look upon the implementation and ritual progress of a meal as a liturgical prescription? Isn't all of civilization apparent in these careful preparations, which consecrate the spirit's triumph over a raging appetite?

By giving the name of progress to its own tendency to a fatal precision, the world is seeking to add to the benefits of life the advantages of death.

Science is a collection of successful recipes.

Modern man no longer works at what cannot be abbreviated

History is the most dangerous product evolved from the chemistry of the intellect.

In the eyes of those who anxiously seek perfection, a work is never truly completed—a word that for them has no sense—but abandoned.

Everything changes but the avant-garde

The deeper education consists in unlearning one's first education.

Every beginning is a consequence - every beginning ends some thing.

The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.

Verbeelding is een uitstekend vertrekpunt voor verandering.

Vooruitgang is een moreel oordeel van een wezen dat zichzelf o zo graag in de spiegel bekijkt.

Dystopias are scary because you can see people struggling, but utopias are scarier because you can see that they stopped.

Pour moi comme pour plusieurs de mes condisciples, la relation du maître et du disciple était chose morte ; ne serait-ce que parce que nous avions d'autres idées que nos maîtres, qui n'avaient que leurs conceptions scientifiques d'avant-guerre ; nous étions sûrs de notre supériorité sur la génération précédente (ce qui vaut mieux que de gémir sur la décadence et de maudire son époque [...]).

Embrace training and explore every opportunity it opens for your mind to learn, I'm a great believer of Lifelong Learning.

We do energy assessments not energy audits. An energy audit is where you tell someone they are doing something wrong. An Assessment is where we help someone to do something right

We can and must move U.S. politics forward by means of committed participation.

Politics is not predictions and politics is not observations. Politics is what we do. Politics is what we do, politics is what we create, by what we work for, by what we hope for and what we dare to imagine.

How can I get better by getting sicker first?

You'll be all right tomorrow. Watch what a difference a day makes

It's not easy being so frightened of everything. And when I think of how much I've improved in the last year, I wonder when I'll ever get finished with making changes and be really grown up.

Soon you will be going on a new journey and beginning a new life.