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Quote 3167
The history of philosophy is to a great extent that of a certain clash of human temperaments.Showing Quotes on progress
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Quote 3106
Life is a predicament which precedes death.Showing Quotes on progress
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Quote 3007
To learn something new, take the path that you took yesterdayShowing Quotes on progress
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Quote 2990
If I’d listened to my consumers, I’d have given them a faster horseShowing Quotes on progress
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Quote 2921
New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not already commonShowing Quotes on progress
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Quote 2863
To read means to borrow; to create out of one's readings is paying off one's debtsShowing Quotes on progress
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Quote 2859
There is no greater impediment to progress in the sciences than the desire to see it take place too quicklyShowing Quotes on progress
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Quote 2854
The human tendency to regard little things as important has produced very many great thingsShowing Quotes on progress
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Quote 2844
Every present state of a simple substance is the natural consequence of its preceding state, in such a way that its present is big with its futureShowing Quotes on progress
Quote 2777
Morality is a venereal disease. Its primary stage is called virtue; its secondary stage, boredom; its tertiary stage, syphilisShowing Quotes on progress
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Quote 2776
It is the style of idealism to console itself for the loss of something old with the ability to gape at something newShowing Quotes on progress
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Quote 2761
Progress, under whose feet the grass mourns and the forest turns into paper from which newspaper plants grow, has subordinated the purpose of life to the means of subsistence and turned us into the nuts and bolts for our toolsShowing Quotes on progress
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Quote 2745
The automobile changed our dress, manners, social customs, vacation habits, the shape of our cities, consumer purchasing patterns, common tastes and positions in intercourseShowing Quotes on progress
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Quote 2698
There is nothing stable in the world; uproar's your only musicShowing Quotes on progress
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Quote 2658
Faith is the highest passion in a human being. Many in every generation may not come that far, but none comes furtherShowing Quotes on progress
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Quote 2614
The thornbush is the old obstacle in the road. It must catch fire if you want to go furtherShowing Quotes on progress
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Quote 2591
I was taught that the way of progress was neither swift nor easy.Showing Quotes on progress
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Quote 2589
I am one of those who think like Nobel, that humanity will draw more good than evil from new discoveriesShowing Quotes on progress
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Quote 2545
The fatal metaphor of progress, which means leaving things behind us, has utterly obscured the real idea of growth, which means leaving things inside us.Showing Quotes on progress
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Quote 2527
All conservatism is based upon the idea that if you leave things alone you leave them as they are. But you do not. If you leave a thing alone you leave it to a torrent of changeShowing Quotes on progress
Quote 2510
There is nothing new in art except talentShowing Quotes on progress
Quote 2372
Two quite opposite qualities equally bias our minds - habits and noveltyShowing Quotes on progress
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Quote 2354
We come too late to say anything which has not been said alreadyShowing Quotes on progress
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Quote 2324
Everything has been said, and we have come too late, now that men have been living and thinking for seven thousand years and moreShowing Quotes on progress
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Quote 2313
When music technology takes the place of musicianship, it's time to pull the plugShowing Quotes on progress
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Quote 2311
We have to be creative and think of ways to make the airport more than just an airport. We need to think of ways to make it an economic-development hubShowing Quotes on progress
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Quote 2307
If your goal is to reduce costs, then coal is a good idea. If the goal is a renewable fuel, coal is a bad idea. When greenhouse-gas emissions go up, environmentalists take note. Then you've got a problemShowing Quotes on progress
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Quote 2290
Progress is the law of life, man is not man as yetShowing Quotes on progress
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Quote 2242
The young do not know enough to be prudent, and therefore they attempt the impossible - and achieve it, generation after generationShowing Quotes on progress
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Quote 2241
Growth itself contains the germ of happinessShowing Quotes on progress
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Quote 2193
The longest day must have its close -the gloomiest night will wear on to a morning. An eternal, inexorable lapse of moments is ever hurrying the day of the evil to an eternal night, and the night of the just to an eternal dayShowing Quotes on progress
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Quote 2156
The logic of words should yield to the logic of realitiesShowing Quotes on progress
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Quote 2152
Our government teaches the whole people by its example. If the government becomes the lawbreaker, it breeds contempt for law; it invites every man to become a law unto himself; it invites anarchyShowing Quotes on progress
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Quote 2147
There are no shortcuts in evolutionShowing Quotes on progress
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Quote 2120
Without contraries is no progression.Showing Quotes on progress
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Quote 2098
Improvement makes straight roads; but the crooked roads without improvement are roads of geniusShowing Quotes on progress
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Quote 2092
The true method of knowledge is experiment.Showing Quotes on progress
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Quote 2088
What is now proved was once only imagined.Showing Quotes on progress
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Quote 1948
Silly things do cease to be silly if they are done by sensible people in an impudent wayShowing Quotes on progress
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Quote 1748
When men are easy in their circumstances, they are naturally enemies to innovationsShowing Quotes on progress
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Quote 1733
We are growing serious, and let me tell you, that's the very next step to being dullShowing Quotes on progress
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Quote 1720
Some day science may have the existence of mankind in power, and the human race can commit suicide by blowing up the worldShowing Quotes on progress
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Quote 1698
If we mean to have heroes, statesmen and philosophers, we should have learned womenShowing Quotes on progress
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Quote 1662
The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudesShowing Quotes on progress
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Quote 1646
All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the betterShowing Quotes on progress
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