'aight, I can't remember the exact quote, nor the person behind it, but it goes something like this: "Without critique, there will be no advances"
So, what's the quote and who said it?
So, what's the quote and who said it?
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Context?
Using it for an essay..
If one doesn't critisise the society, there won't be any advancements in society is kind of what I'm trying to say. I'm sure there's a famous quote like that, but I can't remember
If one doesn't critisise the society, there won't be any advancements in society is kind of what I'm trying to say. I'm sure there's a famous quote like that, but I can't remember
No I meant context of the quote so I can actually find it.
Was it by a male, female, any idea about the date, the social setting, anything?!
Was it by a male, female, any idea about the date, the social setting, anything?!
I remember Jared Diamond writing something along those lines in "Guns, Germs and Steel," how Europe was powerful because of competition between European powers and China got shit because it didn't have any competition. lel, just google the quote.Jenspm wrote:
Using it for an essay..
If one doesn't critisise the society, there won't be any advancements in society is kind of what I'm trying to say. I'm sure there's a famous quote like that, but I can't remember
"Society never advances. It recedes as fast on one side as it gains on the other. Society acquires new arts, and loses old instincts."
Emerson, Ralph Waldo on Society
Society lives by faith, and develops by science.
-Henri Frederic Amiel
*theres too many results with society + advances and any other combinations on what you've given us.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo on Society
Society lives by faith, and develops by science.
-Henri Frederic Amiel
*theres too many results with society + advances and any other combinations on what you've given us.
Cybargs wrote:
I remember Jared Diamond writing something along those lines in "Guns, Germs and Steel," how Europe was powerful because of competition between European powers and China got shit because it didn't have any competition. lel, just google the quote.Jenspm wrote:
Using it for an essay..
If one doesn't critisise the society, there won't be any advancements in society is kind of what I'm trying to say. I'm sure there's a famous quote like that, but I can't remember
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I don't know the context, but I guess the French Revolution / Age of Enlightment would be about right?
War. War never changes.AussieReaper wrote:
"Society never advances. It recedes as fast on one side as it gains on the other. Society acquires new arts, and loses old instincts."
Emerson, Ralph Waldo on Society
Ron Perlman, Fallout
I'd go with Emerson... Coz I remembered something like that in my American Literature class. It was passed enlightenment for sure. If it is around revolution try Rousseau and Voltaire.Jenspm wrote:
I don't know the context, but I guess the French Revolution / Age of Enlightment would be about right?
"If individuality has no play, society does not advance; if individuality breaks out of all bounds, society perishes"
Thomas Huxley
Thomas Huxley
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