Quotes About Progress

El camino del crecimiento personal empieza por el autoconocimiento

Perder es dejar algo «que era», para entrar en otro lugar donde hay otra cosa «que es». Y eso «que es» no es lo mismo «que era».

La corriente lenta arrastra basura, excrementos y espumas

Centuries of centuries and only in the present do things happen.

al cabo de los siglos, todas las cosas recuperarán su estado anterior

Century follows century, yet events occur only in the present

Poetul vremurilor noastre nu poate întoarce spatele epocii sale.

After forty, every change becomes a symbol of time's passing.

This civilization is rapidly passing away, however. Let us rejoice or else lament the fact as much as everyone of us likes; but do not let us shut our eyes to it.

Created by wars that required it, the machine now created the wars it required.

Capitalism Survive?—I have tried to show that a socialist form of society will inevitably emerge from an equally inevitable decomposition of capitalist society.

No one should feel guilty about the past. Unless they're not doing anything about the present.

It was easier for me to run now because all us code talkers had the new lighter portable radio units. But it was not just because the new unit on my back was lighter that I ran so much faster. I no longer had forty pounds of TBX radio to hide behind and I needed to get to cover as fast as I could.

Is the system going to flatten you out and deny you your humanity, or are you going to be able to make use of the system to the attainment of human purposes?

We must be willing to get rid of the life we've planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us. The old skin has to be shed before the new one can come. If we fix on the old, we get stuck. When we hang onto any form, we are in danger of putrefaction. Hell is life drying up.

The creative act is not hanging on, but yielding to a new creative movement. Awe is what moves us forward.

Awe is what moves us forward.

When you are on the right path, invisible hands will come to your aid.

The best way to help mankind is through the perfection of yourself.

the famous conflict of science and religion has actually nothing to do with religion, but is simply of two sciences: that of 4000 B.C. and that of A.D. 2000.

We must be willing to get rid of the life we planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us. The old skin has to be shed before the new one can come.

When you are on your path, and it is truly your path, doors will open for you where there were no doors for someone else.

Our time has changed, and it's changed and changed, and it continues to change so fast, that what was proper fifty years ago is not proper today. So the virtues of the past are the vices of today, and many of what were thought to be the vices of the past are the necessities of today. And the moral order has to catch up with the moral necessities of actual life in time, here and now, and that's what it's not doing, and that's why it's ridiculous to go back to the old-time religion.

You can keep an old tradition going only by renewing it in terms of current circumstances.