Progress
Movement toward improvement in knowledge, society or morals, and whether history shows it.
Works to read
- The Descent of Man by Charles Darwin, 1871 · Great Books
- Mental Pathology and Therapeutics by Wilhelm Griesinger, 1845 (English trans. 1867)
- Lectures on the Diseases of the Nervous System by Jean-Martin Charcot, 1872-1887 (English lectures 1877-1881)
- A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court by Mark Twain, 1889
- Lectures on Clinical Psychiatry by Emil Kraepelin, 1904 English translation
Passages
Virtue is always in progress, and yet always begins from the beginning
— Immanuel Kant, The Metaphysical Elements of Ethics
The progress of an artist is a continual self-sacrifice, a continual extinction of personality.
— T. S. Eliot, The Sacred Wood
What an extraordinary episode in the economic progress of man that age was which came to an end in August, 1914
— John Maynard Keynes, The Economic Consequences of the Peace
all human progress is in a circle; or, to use a more accurate and beautiful figure, in an ascending spiral curve.
— Nathaniel Hawthorne, The House of the Seven Gables
Belief, not doubt, attended him at all points of his progress; rather a tendency to too hasty and headlong belief
— Thomas Carlyle, The Life of John Sterling
But to go further, and make equality of condition essential to liberty, would be to destroy both liberty and progress.
— John C. Calhoun, A Disquisition on Government
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