The case of the general talk of "progress" is, indeed, an extreme one. As enunciated today, "progress" is simply a comparative of which we have not settled the superlative. We meet every ideal of religion, patriotism, beauty, or brute pleasure with the alternative ideal of progress–that is to say, we meet every proposal of getting something that we know about, with an alternative proposal of getting a great deal more of nobody knows what. G.k. Chesterton
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  1. The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man. - George Bernard Shaw
  2. No, our science is no illusion. But an illusion it would be to suppose that what science cannot give us we can get elsewhere. - Sigmund Freud
  3. We can only see a short distance ahead, but we can see plenty there that needs to be done. - Alan Turing
  4. ..[G]reat progress was evident in the last Congress of the American 'Labour Union' in that among other things, it treated working women with complete equality. While in this respect the English, and still more the gallant French, are burdened with a spirit of narrow-mindedness. Anybody... - Karl Marx
  5. Without deviation from the norm, progress is not possible. - Frank Zappa
More Quotes By G.k. Chesterton
  1. The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because generally they are the same people.
  2. To love means loving the unlovable. To forgive means pardoning the unpardonable. Faith means believing the unbelievable. Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.
  3. Love is not blind that is the last thing that it is. Love is bound and the more it is bound the less it is blind.
  4. The true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him.
  5. I wish we could sometimes love the characters in real life as we love the characters in romances. There are a great many human souls whom we should accept more kindly, and even appreciate more clearly, if we simply thought of them as people in...
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