From the very nature of progress, all ages must be transitional. If they were not, the world would be at a stand-still and death would speedily ensue. It is one of the tamest of platitudes but it is always introduced by a flourish of trumpets.


"Form and Intelligibility," from The Radcliffe Manuscripts (1949); written in 1894 as an undergraduate at Radcliffe College

Gertrude Stein Quotes

From the very nature of progress, all ages must be transitional. If they were not, the world would be at a stand-still and death would speedily...

From the very nature of progress, all ages must be transitional. If they were not, the world would be at a stand-still and death would speedily...

From the very nature of progress, all ages must be transitional. If they were not, the world would be at a stand-still and death would speedily...

From the very nature of progress, all ages must be transitional. If they were not, the world would be at a stand-still and death would speedily...