Ascent Quote by Leon Trotsky

It is in the world of ideas and in the relation of his brain to the universe itself that the superiority of Man lies.…

— Fred Hoyle

“If a human being is to ascend to the heights of life, they must first know who they are, where they currently stand, and…

— Emily Gowor

I know no study which is so unutterably saddening as that of the evolution of humanity, as it is set forth in the annals…

— Thomas Huxley

That series of inventions by which man from age to age has remade his environment is a different kind of evolution -- not biological,…

— Jacob Bronowski

In those dark times, one rose to the very heights of humanity by simply remaining human.

— Elie Wiesel

Our reverence for the nobility of manhood will not be lessened by the knowledge that man is in substance and in structure, one with…

— Thomas Huxley

“This feeling that--contrary to the consciously philosophic and historical conception which proclaims unceasing and peaceful progress--one is experiencing a last brief, irretrievable intellectual prime…

— Gyorgy Lukács

“I believe we have inherited a world of suffering that must be transcended through the development of pointed direction, fostering an evolution to a…

— Albert Jackson

One cannot avoid a certain feeling of disgust, when one observes the actions of man displayed on the great stage of the world. Wisdom…

— Immanuel Kant

“Man is not a 'fixed and limited animal whose nature is absolutely constant'. He changed drastically when he developed 'divided consciousness' to cope with…

— Colin Wilson

“History – the amorphous, unconscious life within the swarm of humanity – exploits every minute in the lives of kings as an instrument for…

— Leo Tolstoy

“We look back through countless millions of years and see the great will to live struggling out of the intertidal slime, struggling from shape…

— H. G. Wells