#progress

Poets, prophets, and reformers are all picture-makers — and this ability is the secret of their power and of their

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In France philosophy seems to come before technology; here in the Anglo-American world we race ahead with technology and

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We stopped being so obsessed with the notion of the scientist who pays a huge personal price for amazing progress. Instead

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All good causes are mutually helpful. The benefits accruing from this movement for the equal rights of woman are not confined

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The history of human growth and development is at the same time the history of the terrible struggle of every new idea

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Philosophy is still moving too much in a straight line; it’s not yet cyclical enough.

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Man is such a conservative creature that any change, even a change for the better, scares him, he prefers the bad old way to

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Material progress may for a time be separated from moral progress. But the two cannot be permanently divorced.

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I fully believe in the dignity of all needful labor. All honest effort to better human conditions is entitled to respect.

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All that was an element of progress in the past or an instrument of moral and intellectual improvement of the human race is

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When our ideas on any subject, material, intellectual, or social, undergo a thorough change in consequence of new observations,...

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All our progress is an unfolding, like the vegetable bud. You have first an instinct, then an opinion, then a knowledge, as

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No greater mistake can be made than to imagine that what has been written latest is always the more correct; that what

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Those who long for the triumph of justice, those who would put new ideas into practice, are soon forced to recognize that

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Ages are no more infallible than individuals; every age having held many opinions which subsequent ages have deemed not

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Everyone acknowledges that there are vast amounts we do not know, and that enormous opportunities for progress in

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For man holds his ground only by surpassing himself, in the same sense in which it is said that one ceases to love if one

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You always hear people say that philosophy makes no progress and that the same philosophical problems which were

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Upon this first rule of reason, that in order to learn you must desire to learn, and in so desiring not be satisfied with

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Reason contradicts the established order of men and things on behalf of existing societal forces that reveal the

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I loved you more than I loved me and that's why I missed your absence more than my return....