Progress

When music technology takes the place of musicianship, it's time to pull the plug

Everything has been said, and we have come too late, now that men have been living and thinking for seven thousand years and more

We come too late to say anything which has not been said already

Two quite opposite qualities equally bias our minds - habits and novelty

There is nothing new in art except talent

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 change

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.

I am one of those who think like Nobel, that humanity will draw more good than evil from new discoveries

I was taught that the way of progress was neither swift nor easy.

The thornbush is the old obstacle in the road. It must catch fire if you want to go further

Faith is the highest passion in a human being. Many in every generation may not come that far, but none comes further

There is nothing stable in the world; uproar's your only music

The automobile changed our dress, manners, social customs, vacation habits, the shape of our cities, consumer purchasing patterns, common tastes and positions in intercourse

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 tools

It is the style of idealism to console itself for the loss of something old with the ability to gape at something new

Morality is a venereal disease. Its primary stage is called virtue; its secondary stage, boredom; its tertiary stage, syphilis

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 future

The human tendency to regard little things as important has produced very many great things

There is no greater impediment to progress in the sciences than the desire to see it take place too quickly

To read means to borrow; to create out of one's readings is paying off one's debts