We live in this world in order always to learn industriously and to enlighten each other by means of discussion and to strive vigorously to promote the progress of science and the fine arts. Read Summary
You can't say civilization don't advance... in every war they kill you in a new way. Read Summary
We always live in an uncertain world. What is certain is that the United States will go forward over time. Read Summary
I say that democracy can never prove itself beyond cavil, until it founds and luxuriantly grows its own forms of art, poems, schools, theology, displacing all that exists, or that has been produced anywhere in the past, under opposite influences. Read Summary
We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things, because we're curious and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths. Read Summary
Perfection is attained by slow degrees; it requires the hand of time. Read Summary
It is impossible to predict the time and progress of revolution. It is governed by its own more or less mysterious laws. Read Summary
When one makes a Revolution, one cannot mark time; one must always go forward - or go back. He who now talks about the 'freedom of the press' goes backward, and halts our headlong course towards Socialism. Read Summary
There is no hierarchy of values any more. Real progress is due mainly to human genius, and that's rare, and usually stems from a real elite, from a hierarchy. Read Summary
Greater than the tread of mighty armies is an idea whose time has come. Read Summary
Hold fast to the Bible. To the influence of this Book we are indebted for all the progress made in true civilization and to this we must look as our guide in the future. Read Summary
The march of science and technology does not imply growing intellectual complexity in the lives of most people. It often means the opposite. Read Summary
Discontent is the first necessity of progress. Read Summary
Restlessness is discontent and discontent is the first necessity of progress. Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure. Read Summary
I start where the last man left off. Read Summary
They say President Wilson has blundered. Perhaps he has, but I notice he usually blunders forward. Read Summary
It is only through labor and painful effort, by grim energy and resolute courage, that we move on to better things. Read Summary
It behooves every man to remember that the work of the critic is of altogether secondary importance, and that, in the end, progress is accomplished by the man who does things. Read Summary
The progress of an artist is a continual self-sacrifice, a continual extinction of personality. Read Summary
I have felt great advances in my poetry, the main one being a growing victory over word nuances and a superfluity of adjectives. Read Summary