“The simple fact about progress is that the future of mankind has nothing to offer the individual life, except death.”

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This quote has been altered a lot. "There are, however, a few melancholy side effects in the reassuring idea that we need only march into the future, which we can’t help doing anyhow, in order to find a better world. There is, first of all, the simple fact that this general future of mankind has nothing to offer the individual life, whose only certain future is death."

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