The concept of progress acts as a protective mechanism to shield us from the terrors of the future.
I don’t think you can talk about progress in art—movement, but not progress.
A process which led from the amoeba to man appeared to the philosophers to be obviously a progress though whether the amoeba would agree with this opinion is not known.
It would be advisable to think of progress in the crudest, most basic terms: that no one should go hungry anymore, that there should be no more torture, no more Auschwitz. Only then will the idea of progress be free from lies.
If 'pro' is the opposite of 'con' what is the opposite of 'progress'?
There is nothing good in this world which time does not improve.
Today, the notion of progress in a single line without goal or limit seems perhaps the most parochial notion of a very parochial century.
The idea of progress - the notion that human history is the history of human betterment - dominated the world view of the West between the Enlightenment and the First World War.
