Quotes About Development

Nietzsche may have seen the relentless struggle of the individual as the prerequisite for his full development, the fundamental motive was at work, namely the resistance of the individual to being leveled, swallowed up in the social-technological mechanism.

We stand at the gates of an important epoch, a time of ferment, when spirit moves forward in a leap, transcends its previous shape and takes on a new one..... A new phase of the spirit is preparing itself. Philosophy especially has to welcome its appearance and acknowledge it, while others, who oppose it impotently, cling the past.

War is progress, peace is stagnation

By Nature man is not what he ought to be; only through a transforming process does he arrive at truth.

The very fact that something is determined as a limitation implies that the limitation is already transcended.

The spirit is never at rest but always engaged in ever progressive motion, in giving itself a new form.

Education in its early stages always begins with fault-finding, but when it is complete, it sees the positive element in everything.

In this way the one Soul may develop or evolve or express an innumerable variety of ideas: for in response to whatever it meets, the living and active Soul ideates, or gives rise to a representation. Thus

Die Pädagogik ist die Kunst, die Menschen sittlich zu machen.

A photographer is like a cod, which produces a million eggs in order that one may reach maturity.

A man learns to skate by staggering about and making a fool of himself. Indeed he progresses in all things by resolutely making a fool of himself.

Reasonable people adapt themselves to the world. Unreasonable people attempt to adapt the world to themselves. All progress, therefore, depends on unreasonable people.

What we want to see is the child in pursuit of the knowledge not the knowledge in pursuit of the child.

What is the matter with universities is that the students are school children, whereas it is of the very essence of university education that they should be adults.

The natural term of the affection of the human animal for its offspring is six years.

Man] progresses in all things by resolutely making a fool of himself.

Think of the fierce energy concentrated in an acorn! You bury it in the ground, and it explodes into an oak!

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world around him; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.

An epoch is but a swing of the pendullum; and each generation thinks the world is progressing because it is always moving.

Reasonable men adapt themselves to the world. Unreasonable men adapt the world to themselves. That´s why all progress depends on unreasonable men.

At the end of the book you know Micawber, whereas you only know what has happened to David, and are not interested enough in him to wonder what his politics or religion might be if anything so stupendous as a religious or political idea, or a general idea of any sort, were to occur to him. He is tolerable as a child; but he never becomes a man, and might be left out of his own biography altogether but for his usefulness as a stage confidant

The reasonable man adapts himself to the environment. The unreasonable man adapts the environment to him. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man. ~ George Bernard Shaw

Progress is impossible without change. And those who cannot change their minds, cannot change anything.

Progresul este imposibil f?r? schimbare, iar aceia care nu îÅŸi pot schimba felul de a gândi nu pot schimba nimic