“There has been progress in design, but not progress in accomplishment.”
Richard Dawkins book The Blind Watchmaker
Source: The Blind Watchmaker (1986), Chapter 7 “Constructive Evolution” (p. 186)
"Psychosis" (28 November 1970).
Scientology Bulletins
“There has been progress in design, but not progress in accomplishment.”
Richard Dawkins book The Blind Watchmaker
Source: The Blind Watchmaker (1986), Chapter 7 “Constructive Evolution” (p. 186)
Charles A. Reich book The Greening of America
Source: The Greening of America (1970), Chapter VIII : The Machine Begins To Self-Destruct, p. 189-190
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi (1934) Hungarian American psychologist
Source: Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience
Lewis Thomas (1913–1993) American physician, poet and educator
“My life’s work has been accomplished. I did all that I could.”
Mikhail Gorbachev (1931) General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union
The Observer [London] (15 December 1991)
1990s
“Faith is a state of mind that can be conditioned through self-discipline. Faith will accomplish.”
Bruce Lee (1940–1973) Hong Kong-American actor, martial artist, philosopher and filmmaker
Part 6 "Beyond System — The Ultimate Source of Jeet Kune Do"
Jeet Kune Do (1997)
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel (1772–1829) German poet, critic and scholar
Was sich thun lässt, so lange Philosophie und Poesie getrennt sind, ist gethan und vollendet. Also ist die Zeit nun da, beyde zu vereinigen.
“Ideas,” Lucinde and the Fragments, P. Firchow, trans. (1991), § 108
Pope John Paul II Salvifici doloris
Apostolic Letter, Salvifici Doloris (“redemptive suffering”), 1984
Source: http://w2.vatican.va/content/john-paul-ii/en/apost_letters/1984/documents/hf_jp-ii_apl_11021984_salvifici-doloris.html
“One believes things because one has been conditioned to believe them.”
Aldous Huxley book Brave New World
The Controller, Mustapha Mond, in Ch. 17
Variant: People believe in God because they've been conditioned to believe in God.
Source: Brave New World (1932)