Quotes About Progress

Man is an animal that "arrived"; that is all.

For to be possessed of a vigorous mind is not enough; the prime requisite is rightly to apply it. The greatest minds, as they are capable of the highest excellence, are open likewise to the greatest aberrations; and those who travel very slowly may yet make far greater progress, provided they keep always to the straight road, than those who, while they run, forsake it.

For the very fact that my knowledge is increasing little by little is the most certain argument for its imperfection.

those who move but very slowly, may advance much farther, if they always follow the right way; then those who run and straggle from it.

those people who formerly had been half wilde, and civiliz'd but by degrees, made their laws but according to the incommodities which their crimes and their quarrels constrain'd them to, could not be so wel pollic'd, as those who from the beginning of their association, observ'd the constitutions of some prudent Legislator.

You just keep pushing. You just keep pushing. I made every mistake that could be made. But I just kept pushing.

Each problem that I solved became a rule which served afterwards to solve other problems

Ne t'attarde pas à l'ornière des résultats. ( Don't linger in the rut of success )

Wherever human beings are concerned, trend is not destiny.

Humankind exhausts, little by little, all illusions, including inferior notions of God swept away by atheism.

Europeans, since the days when they began to believe in :progress" and in "evolution," that is to say since a little more than a century ago, profess to see a sign of inferiority in this absence of change, whereas for our part, we look upon it as a balanced condition which Western civilization has failed to achieve.

Et c'est là, en même temps, ce qui donne l'illusion du progrès à ceux qui, ne connaissant qu'une civilisation, voient exclusivement la direction dans laquelle elle se développe, croient qu'elle est la seule possible, et ne se rendent pas compte que ce développement sur un point peut être largement compensé par une régression sur d'autres points.

The differences between East and West seem to have been continually on the increase, but this divergence can be said to have been one-sided, in the sense that it is only the West which has changes, whereas the East, broadly speaking, has remained much the same as it was in times which we are accustomed to call ancient, but which nevertheless are comparatively recent.

I value our working relationship…. Going forward I feel we'll be able to work through any problem." "I'm glad we talked this out…. Now I'm confident we can work through any problem.

As a deep wound comes to the surface, things can appear worse for a time.

On rare occasion we are granted the gift of seeing how far we have come; just how much we have healed and how really free we are. Never again will we underestimate our ability to rise.

Thank you to all the people who have triggered my issues. You have helped me clarify what they are, start the healing process and ultimately become a better person.

We don't always get what we want, but often something better happens and we become the person we always wanted to be.

Fear... is forward. No one is afraid of yesterday.

I think when you are truly stuck, when you have stood still in the same spot for too long, you throw a grenade in exactly the spot you were standing in, and jump, and pray. It is the momentum of last resort. Some people get a jump on the morning in other ways—

Stone is replaced by concrete, literature is replaced by journalism, journalism is replaced by information, man is replaced by woman, man and woman are replaced by robots, robots are replaced by cyborgs, and maybe humanity is replaced by post-humanity or trans humanity, i do think replacement is central to the modern society.

The very essence of modernity is the fact that everything—and really everything—can be replaced by something else, which is absolutely monstrous

It is meaning that drives most people forward in time, and it is meaning that reminds them of the past, so they know where they are in the universe.

Sweet as sugar. And then he hardened. I can't 'splain it another way. He was like sugar in a jar that hardens. And after a while you take it out, and it is one rock-solid lump.