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Quotes About Progress

Doubt is the starting point of modern philosophy; the need to silence it had a most powerful stimulus on the development of modern philosophy and science. But although many rational doubts have been solved by rational answers, the irrational doubt has not disappeared and cannot disappear as long as man has not progressed from negative freedom to positive freedom.
~ Erich Fromm
Çünkü devrim, hiçbir zaman umutsuzluk temeli üzerine kurulmam??t?r ve de kurulamaz.
~ Erich Fromm
The school aims to give each student a certain amount of "cultural property," and at the end of their schooling certifies the students as having at least the minimum amount.
~ Erich Fromm
Progress in social psychology is necessary to counteract the dangers which arise from the progress in physics and medicine.
~ Erich Fromm
once torn away from nature, he cannot return to it; once thrown out of paradise—a state of original oneness with nature—cherubim with flaming swords block his way, if he should try to return. Man can only go forward by developing his reason, by finding a new harmony, a human one
~ Erich Fromm
Er musste an eine Zeichnung von Daumier denken, die Der Fortschritt hieß. Daumier hatte auf dem Blatt Schnecken dargestellt, die hintereinander herkrochen, das war das Tempo der menschlichen Entwicklung. Aber die Schnecken krochen im Kreis! Und das war das Schlimmste.
~ Erich Kastner
Some day perhaps our time will be known as the age of irony. Not the witty irony of the eighteenth century, but the stupid or malignant irony of a crude age of technological progress and cultural regression.
~ Erich Maria Remarque
For us lads of eighteen they ought to have been mediators and guides to the world of maturity, the world of work, of duty, of culture, of progress -- to the future.
~ Erich Maria Remarque
See what has become of us. As far as I know, only the old Greeks had gods of drinking and the joy of life: Bacchus and Dionysus. Instead of that we have Freud, inferiority complexes and the psychoanalysis. We're afraid of the too great words in love and not afraid of much too great words in politics. A sorry generation!
~ Erich Maria Remarque
Ali hteti zadržati prošlost zna?i odre?i se budu?nosti.
~ Erich Maria Remarque
Albert expresses it: "The war has ruined us for everything." He is right. We are not youth any longer. We don't want to take the world by storm. We are fleeing. We fly from ourselves. From our life. We were eighteen and had begun to love life and the world; and we had to shoot it to pieces. The first bomb, the first explosion, burst in our hearts. We are cut off from activity, from striving, from progress. We believe in such things no longer, we believe in the war. The
~ Erich Maria Remarque
The war has ruined us for everything. He is right. We are not youth any longer. We don't want to take the world by storm. We are fleeing. We fly from ourselves. From our life. We were eighteen and had begun to love life and the world; and we had to shoot it to pieces. The first bomb, the first explosion, burst in our hearts. We are cut off from activity, from striving, from progress. We believe in such things no longer, we believe in the war.
~ Erich Maria Remarque
While I was despairing and thinking everything was lost, it was quietly growing. I thought that parting was always final. Now I know that growing is a kind of parting. To grow means to leave something behind. And there is no end to it.
~ Erich Maria Remarque
Baudi dz?vi un dom? tikai tad, kad tas ir nepieciešams. [..] Kad j?pelna nauda vai gribi tikt dz?v? uz priekšu.
~ Erich Maria Remarque
The solicitor for whom he used to work in Cologne has written to tell him that women are now doing the work excellently and more cheaply, whereas Jupp, during his time in the army, will have grown out of office requirements, no doubt. He deeply regrets it, so he says; the times are hard. Best wishes for the future.
~ Erich Maria Remarque
We are not youth any longer. We don't want to take the world by storm. We are fleeing. We fly from ourselves. From our life. We were eighteen and had begun to love life and the world; and we had to shoot it to pieces. The first bomb, the first explosion, burst in our hearts. We are cut off from activity, from striving, from progress. We believe in such things no longer, we believe in the war.
~ Erich Maria Remarque
Albert expresses it: "The war has ruined us for everything." He is right. We are not youth any longer. We don't want to take the world by storm. We are fleeing. We fly from ourselves. From our life. We were eighteen and had begun to love life and the world; and we had to shoot it to pieces. The first bomb, the first explosion, burst in our hearts. We are cut off from activity, from striving, from progress. We believe in such things no longer, we believe in the war.
~ Erich Maria Remarque
They used to tie us to a tree, but that is forbidden now. In many ways we are treated quite like men. An
~ Erich Maria Remarque
Obiectivul atins nu reprezint? pentru ei un popas, ci punctul de plecare pentru noi n?zuin?e.
~ Erich Maria Remarque
Svršetak može biti dobar samo ako je pre njega bilo loše. Tada je loš svršetak povoljniji.
~ Erich Maria Remarque
The pleasurable qualities associated with the previous ego phase, once that system is outgrown, become painful for the ego of the next phase.
~ Erich Neumann
Living better is the best revenge
~ Erich Segal
La Ciencia es la Luz, (..) Trae ilustración y conocimiento a la gente que antes vivía en la oscuridad. Para que las colecciones de arte, las curiosidades y las casas de fieras pudieran llegar a ser útil, y no solo diversión.
~ Erik Fosnes Hansen
The fair awakened America to beauty and as such was a necessary passage that laid the foundation for men like Frank Lloyd Wright and Ludwig Mies van der Rohe.
~ Erik Larson