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Those who speak most of progress measure it by quantity and not by quality.

Those who speak most of progress measure it by quantity and not by quality.

George Santayana
Progress, Quality, Speak
George Santayana (2014). “Winds of Doctrine: Studies in Contemporary Opinion”, p.7, The Floating Press

Progress, far from consisting in change, depends on retentiveness. When change is absolute there remains no being to improve and no direction is set for possible improvement: and when experience is not retained, as among savages, infancy is perpetual.

George Santayana
Infancy Is, Progress, Savages
George Santayana (2011). “The Life of Reason: Introduction and Reason in Common Sense”, p.172, MIT Press

The vital straining towards an ideal, definite but latent, when it dominates a whole life, may express that ideal more fully than could the best chosen words.

George Santayana
Progress, May, Evolution
George Santayana (1970). “Three Philosophical Poets: Lucretius, Dante, and Goethe”, p.151, Library of Alexandria

The tide of evolution carries everything before it, thoughts no less than bodies, and persons no less than nations.

George Santayana
Science, Progress, Body
George Santayana (1934). “Little essays drawn from the writings of George Santayana”, p.106, Рипол Классик

Thought is essentially practical in the sense that but for thought no motion would be an action, no change a progress.

George Santayana
Ideas, Progress, Would Be
George Santayana, Marianne S. Wokeck, Martin A. Coleman, James Gouinlock (2011). “The Life of Reason or The Phases of Human Progress: Introduction and Reason in Common Sense, Volume VII, Book One”, p.130, MIT Press

Catastrophes come when some dominant institution, swollen like a soap-bubble and still standing without foundations, suddenly crumbles at the touch of what may seem a word or idea, but is really some stronger material source.

George Santayana
Ideas, Stronger, Progress

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