Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been sober, responsible, and cautious, but because it has been playful, rebellious, and immature.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Human progress has always been driven by a sense of adventure and unconventional thinking.
Human progress is neither automatic nor inevitable... Every step toward the goal of justice requires sacrifice, suffering, and struggle; the tireless exertions and passionate concern of dedicated individuals.
Humanity is still advancing; and it will probably continue to advance for hundreds of thousands of years more, always on condition that we know how to keep the same line of advance as our ancestors towards ever greater consciousness and complexity.
The more humanity advances, the more it is degraded.
Human nature is complex. Even if we do have inclinations toward violence, we also have inclination to empathy, to cooperation, to self-control.
We have learned to live with unholiness and have come to look upon it as the natural and expected thing.
People tend to become more emotionally intelligent as they age and mature.
Human life is driven forward by its dim apprehension of notions too general for its existing language.
Human development thus far has been fueled and guided by the feeling that things could be, and are probably going to be, better.
Human nature is not nearly as bad as it has been thought to be.
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