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“Revolutionary practice in any field of human existence develops by itself if one comprehends the contradictions in every new process; it consists in siding with those forces which act in the direction of progressive development.”

Ifs Humans Force Process Existence Practice Fields Development Revolutionary Contradiction Progressive Human Existence Siding New Processes

Author:Wilhelm Reich

“If the Russian word "perestroika" has easily entered the international lexicon, this is due to more than just interest in what is going on in the Soviet Union. Now the whole world needs restructuring, i.e. progressive development, a fundamental change.”

Ifs World Needs Whole Interest Development Fundamentals Unions International Dues Whole World Progressive Soviet Soviet Union Lexicon Restructuring

Author:Mikhail Gorbachev

“...evolution is the gradual development and stratification of progressive series of wholes, stretching from the inorganic beginnings to the highest level of spiritual creation.”

Spiritual Growth Levels Creation Development Evolution Highest Series Progressive Stretching

Author:Jan Smuts

“A divine revelation must necessarily be intolerant of contradiction; it must repudiate all improvement in itself, and view with disdain that arising from the progressive intellectual development of man.”

Men Views Atheism Divine Development Intellectual Positive Atheism Improvement Revelations Contradiction Progressive Disdain Divine Revelation Intellectual Development

Book:History of the Conflict Between Religion and Science: By John William Draper ...

Source: History of the Conflict Between Religion and Science: By John William Draper ...

“God must have been engaged from the beginning, and must now be engaged in progressive development, and infinite as God is, he must have been less powerful in the past than he is today.... We may be certain that, through self-effort, the inherent and innate powers of God have been developed to a God-like degree. Thus he has become God.”

May Has Beens Self Today Past Certain Powerful Effort Development Degrees Infinite Engaged Progressive Inherent Innate Power Of God

Author:John Andreas Widtsoe

“A heavy or progressive or graduated income tax is necessary for the proper development of Communism.”

Development Taxes Heavy Income Communism Progressive Income Tax

Author:Karl Marx

“The progressive growth of the finite consciousness of man towards this Self, towards the universal , the eternal, the infinite, in a word his growth into spiritual consciousness by the development of his ordinary ignorant natural being into an illumined divine nature, this is for Indian thinking the significance of life and the aim of human existance.”

“The progressive development of man [has as its] ultimate purpose the complete mastery of mind over the material world.”

Men World Mind Purpose Materials Development Ultimate Progressive Mastery Material World

Author:Nikola Tesla

“Freedom is the opportunity for right development, for development in accordance with the progressive ideal of life that we have in conscience.”

Opportunity Development Conscience Ideals Progressive

Book:Human Nature and the Social Order

Source: Human Nature and the Social Order

“The grandest of all laws is the law of progressive development. Under it, in the wide sweep of things, men grow wiser as they grow older, and societies better.”

Men Law Grows Wise Progress Development Wide Progressive Wiser Progressive Society

Book:Intuitions and Summaries of Thought

Source: Intuitions and Summaries of Thought

“Whatever plane our consciousness may be acting in, both we and the things belonging to that plane are, for the time being, our only realities. As we rise in the scale of development we perceive that during the stages through which we have passed we mistook shadows for realities, and the upward progress of the Ego is a series of progressive awakenings, each advance bringing with it the idea that now, at last, we have reached "reality"; but only when we shall have reached the absolute Consciousness, and blended our own with it, shall we be free from the delusions produced by Maya [illusion].”

Source: An Abridgement of the Secret Doctrine

“If we compel the composer to write in terms of what the listener is able to hear, we flirt with the danger of freezing the evolution of musical language, whose progressive development comes about through transgressions of a given era's perceptual habits."”

Ifs Writing Able Language Given Term Music Danger Development Evolution Habit Musical Eras Progressive Composer Listeners Flirting Transgression Freezing

Book:Music and Discourse: Toward a Semiology of Music

Source: Music and Discourse: Toward a Semiology of Music