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"I remain convinced that obstinate addiction to ordinary language in our private thoughts is one of the main obstacles to progress in philosophy."
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"Change is a quintessential element of progress. Without change, progress is non-existent."

"Progress means advancement in the path of upliftment " in the path of enlightenment " in the path of humanitarian glory."

"Yearning for the seemingly impossible is the path to human progress."

"Iteration, like friction, is likely to generate heat instead of progress."

"A person who makes few mistakes makes little progress."

"True human progress is based less on the inventive mind than on the conscience of such men as Brandeis."

"After I received my blue belt, I soon recognized that the belts were simply an external representation of an inner experience, and that they mattered little compared to the person I was becoming."

"If the humanity does not poison the minds of the children with all sort of religious craps, the new generations of humanity will soon create a new world order where reason and logic will be the sole guide, the sole savior!"
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"It is the preoccupation with possessions, more than anything else, that prevents us from living freely and nobly."

"Order, unity, and continuity are human inventions, just as truly as catalogues and encyclopedias."

"So long as there is death there will be sorrow, and so long as there is sorrow it can be no part of the duty of human beings to increase its amount, in spite of the fact that a few rare spirits know how to transmute it."

"The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts."

"Those who forget good and evil and seek only to know the facts are more likely to achieve good than those who view the world through the distorting medium of their own desires."

"The universe may have a purpose, but nothing we know suggests that, if so, this purpose has any similarity to ours."

"It has been said that man is a rational animal. All my life I have been searching for evidence which could support this."

"Almost everything that distinguishes the modern world from earlier centuries is attributable to science, which achieved its most spectacular triumphs in the seventeenth century."
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