“I am suffocated and lost when I have not the bright feeling of progression.”
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“Man … feels lost without the direction-finder provide by progress.”
“Ultimate Terms in Contemporary Rhetoric,” p. 93.
Language is Sermonic (1970)
Part III : Selection on Education from Kant's other Writings, Ch. I Pedagogical Fragments, # 55
The Educational Theory of Immanuel Kant (1904)
Context: I am an investigator by inclination. I feel a great thirst for knowledge and an impatient eagerness to advance, also satisfaction at each progressive step. There was a time when I thought that all this could constitute the honor of humanity, and I despised the mob, which knows nothing about it. Rousseau set me straight. This dazzling excellence vanishes; I learn to honor men, and would consider myself much less useful than common laborers if I did not believe that this consideration could give all the others a value, to establish the rights of humanity.
Source: Dream of the Red Chamber (c. 1760), Chapter 2
On the matrilineal system of inheritance in vogue among the royal family, in "Royal vignettes: Travancore - Simplicity graces this House (30 March 2003)"
“when I am feeling
low
all i have to do is
watch my cats
and my
courage
returns”
L'Unité d'un Homme (November 1994), quoted in The Times (21 November 1994), p. 11
President of the European Commission