Quotes about Progress

We have to continually be jumping off cliffs and developing our wings on the way down.

Tomorrow is a new day with no mistakes in it... yet.

W]e must never allow the future to collapse under the burden of memory.

Now time has a very different look; it is no longer the conquering present capturing the future; it is the present conquered and captured and carried off by the past.

Those who are fascinated by the idea of progress do not suspect that everything moving forward is at the same time bringing the end nearer and that joyous watchwords like forward and farther are the lascivious voice of death urging us to hasten to it. (If fascination with the word forward has become universal, isn't it mainly because death is already speaking to us from nearby?)

to be absolutely modern means: never to question the content of modernity and to serve it as one serves the absolute, that is, without hesitation.

At the university she used to be seduced by the dreams of voyages to distant stars. What pleasure to escape far away into the universe, someplace where life expresses itself differently from here and needs no bodies! But despite all his amazing rockets, man will never progress very far in the universe. The brevity of his life makes the sky a dark lid against which he will forever crack his head, to fall back onto earth, where everything alive eats and can be eaten.

Failure is just a way for our lives to show us we're moving in the wrong direction, that we should try something different

I would love to see the Church on the right side of history.

I love efficiencies and I love solving big problems, and I love working with people who create efficiencies. I love creating efficiencies in my own life on a day-to-day basis.

We cannot expect to lift others unless we stand on higher ground ourselves.

Success equals goals; all else is commentary.