“To gauge the understanding and insight that metaphysics provides is to ask whether, in the final analysis, it helps us to cope with our world and harmonize our existence with nature, humanity, and ourselves, and leads to greater freedom and self-realization. Metaphysics is only the beginning. The end is human progress.” WorldHumansEndsSelfHelpingHumanityAsksUnderstandingExistenceGreaterProgressSocietyFinalsInsightSelf RealizationRealizationAnalysisOur WorldMetaphysicsHuman ProgressGauges Author:Rudolph Rummel
“The conflict between the principle of liberty and the fact of slavery is coming gradually to an issue. Slavery has now the power, and falls into convulsions at the approach of freedom. That the fall of slavery is predetermined in the counsels of Omnipotence I cannot doubt; it is a part of the great moral improvement in the condition of man, attested by all the records of history. But the conflict will be terrible, and the progress of improvement perhaps retrograde before its final progress to consummation.” MenFactsFallLibertyMoralPrinciplesIssuesDoubtRecordsProgressConditionsTerribleConflictApproachSlaveryFinalsImprovementOmnipotencePredeterminedRetrograde Book:Memoirs of John Quincy Adams: Comprising Portions of His Diary from 1795 to 1848 Source: Memoirs of John Quincy Adams: Comprising Portions of His Diary from 1795 to 1848
“One belief, more than any other, is responsible for the slaughter of individuals on the alter of the great historical ideas - justice or progress or happiness of future generations... or emancipation of a nation or race or class... this is the belief that somewhere... there is a final solution.” IdeasIndividualBeliefNationsJusticeRaceClassProgressGenerationsAtheismSolutionsResponsibleHistoricalFinalsPositive AtheismFuture GenerationSlaughterEmancipationGreat Historical Author:Isaiah Berlin
“The final moment of success is often no more thrilling than taking off a heavy backpack at the end of a long hike. If you went on the hike only to feel that pleasure, you are a fool. Yet people sometimes do just this. They work hard at a task and expect some special euphoria at the end. But when they achieve success and find only moderate and short-lived pleasure, they ask is that all there is? They devalue their accomplishments as a striving after wind. We can call this the progress principle: Pleasure comes more from making progress toward goals than from achieving them.” PeopleIfsFeelsLongEndsSometimesHardMomentsHappinessAsksGoalPleasurePrinciplesProgressAchieveSpecialWindHard WorkFoolTasksStriveFinalsHeavyAccomplishmentModeratesThrillingEuphoriaShort LivedDevalue Author:Jonathan Haidt
“A river finds its course with sureness, pushing aside whatever surface matter lies in its way, and as it gathers volume and resulting strength, nothing can withstand its progress. It carves canyons, moves great boulders, erodes the soil, moving insistently onward in its surging need to reach its final goal - the ocean.” WayNeedsMatterMovingLyingCoursesGoalProgressOceanRiversFinalsSurfaceSoilPushingVolumeCanyonsErodeBoulders Author:Laura Gilpin
“Dave Jones got to the final last year and lost in the semi-final this year, so progress has definitely been made” YearsMadeLastsLostProgressFinalsLast YearDave Author:Paul Lambert
“Success is not arriving at the summit of a mountain as a final destination. It is a continuing upward spiral of progress. It is perpetual growth.” MotivationalSuccessGrowthProgressJourneyMountainFinalsFulfillmentDestinationPerpetualContinuingSummitArrivingSpiralsFinal Destination Author:Wilferd Peterson
“In the final analysis, the progress of our civilization will be retarded if any large body of citizens falls behind. Without the help of thousands of others, any one of us would die, naked and starved.” IfsHelpingBodyDiesFallBehindsProgressCitizensCivilizationFinalsNakedAnalysisRetarded Author:Franklin D. Roosevelt
“In the final analysis there is no other solution to man's progress but the day's honest work, the day's honest decision, the day's generous utterances, and the day's good deed.” MenDecisionBusinessProgressHonestSolutionsFinalsDeedsAnalysisGenerousGood DeedsUtteranceTough DecisionsHonest WorkKept Woman Author:Clare Boothe Luce