Quotes 321 till 340 of 488.
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Taste is only to be educated by contemplation, not of the tolerably good but of the truly excellent. I therefore show you only the best works; and when you are grounded in these, you will have a standard for the rest, which you will know how to value, without overrating them.
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Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards.
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Technological progress is like an ax in the hands of a pathological criminal.
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Technology has changed the way book publishing works, as it has changed everything else in the world of media.
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Temporarily in 1934 I became a department head in the German Labor Front and dealt with the improvement of labor conditions in German factories. Then I was in charge of public works on the staff of Hess. I gave up both these activities in 1941.
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That is the consolation of a little mind; you have the fun of changing it without impeding the progress of mankind.
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That's the terrible thing: the more one works on a picture, the more impossible it becomes to finish it.
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The aim of all commentary on art now should be to make works of art - and, by analogy, our own experience - more, rather than less, real to us. The function of criticism should be to show how it is what it is, even that it is what it is, rather than to show what it means.
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The American idea of racial progress is measured by how fast I become white.
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The American people expect and deserve a government that works and leaders who work together.
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The art of progress is to preserve order amid change, and to preserve change amid order.
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The Artist is he who detects and applies the law from observation of the works of Genius, whether of man or Nature. The Artisan is he who merely applies the rules which others have detected.
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The attainments of the parent do not descend in the blood of his children, nor is the progress of man to be considered as a physical mutation of the species.
An Essay on the History of Civil Society I,I -
The brave man carves out his fortune, and every man is the son of his own works.
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The brutalities of progress are called revolutions. When they are over we realize this: that the human race has been roughly handled, but that it has advanced.
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The characteristic of scientific progress is our knowing that we did not know.
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The chief obstacle to the progress of the human race is the human race.
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The day for progress by force has passed; it will be progress by ideas or not at all.
The Great Illusion (1910)
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