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Roads, better harnesses for horses, time-keeping devices, financial instruments like a currency that was recognized everywhere in the kingdom, enforceable contracts - all of this made commerce more appealing than plunder.
 
Without deviation, progress is not possible.
 
Our civilization is characterized by the word progress. Progress is its form rather than making progress being one of its features. Typically it constructs. It is occupied with building an ever more complicated structure. And even clarity is sought only as a means to this end, not as an end in itself. For me on the contrary clarity, perspicuity are valuable in themselves.
 
We will never have a perfect world, but it's not romantic or naive to work toward a better one.
 
Just improve yourself; that is the only thing you can do to better the world.
 
It must be remembered that necessity is only the mother of invention; socially accumulated knowledge is its father.
 
Life has become better, and no one seems to know about it.
 
Any theory that makes progress is bound to be initially counterintuitive.
 
All the progress we have made in philosophy ... is the result of that methodical skepticism which is the element of human freedom.
 
Once, the governing human metaphor was pastoral or agricultural, and it clarified, and so preserved in human care, the natural cycles of birth, growth, death, and decay. But modern humanity's governing metaphor is that of the machine. Having placed ourselves in charge of creation, we began to mechanize both the creation itself and our conception of it. We began to see the whole creation merely as raw material, to be transformed by machines into a manufactured Paradise.
 
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