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The sacred formula of positivism: love as a principle, the order as a foundation, and progress as a goal.


Auguste Comte

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Even longer,' Pooh answered.”
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C. JOYBELL C. As far as we are concerned, we Syria have not changed.
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More Auguste Comte

Each department of knowledge passes through three stages. The theoretic stage; the theological stage...
AUGUSTE COMTE The dead govern the living.
AUGUSTE COMTE Indeed, every true science has for its object the determination of certain phenomena by means of oth...
AUGUSTE COMTE Men are not allowed to think freely about chemistry and biology: why should they be allowed to think...
AUGUSTE COMTE Know yourself to improve yourself.
AUGUSTE COMTE The dead governs the living.
AUGUSTE COMTE Ideas govern the world, or throw it into chaos.
AUGUSTE COMTE The word 'right' should be excluded from political language, as the word 'cause' fro...
AUGUSTE COMTE The only real life is the collective life of the race; individual life has no existence except as an...
AUGUSTE COMTE Every science consists in the coordination of facts; if the different observations were entirely iso...
AUGUSTE COMTE Demography is destiny.
AUGUSTE COMTE To understand a science, it is necessary to know its history.
AUGUSTE COMTE He's the one with the money. He's the one with the power.
KARA COMTE He is the root of a lot of our problems in this area.
KARA COMTE The artist must create a spark before he can make a fire and before art is born, the artist must be ...
AUGUSTE RODIN Patience is also a form of action.
AUGUSTE RODIN To the artist there is never anything ugly in nature.
AUGUSTE RODIN I invent nothing, I rediscover.
AUGUSTE RODIN I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
AUGUSTE RODIN Art is contemplation. It is the pleasure of the mind which searches into nature and which there divi...
AUGUSTE RODIN Experience, which plays such an important part in culinary work, is nowhere so necessary as in the p...
AUGUSTE ESCOFFIER Jellies are to cold cookery what consommes and stock are to hot. If anything, the former are perhaps...
AUGUSTE ESCOFFIER Having realised that in cooking there was a vast field of study and development, I said to myself, &...
AUGUSTE ESCOFFIER Man's naked form belongs to no particular moment in history; it is eternal, and can be looked up...
AUGUSTE RODIN Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely.
AUGUSTE RODIN I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
AUGUSTE RODIN There are unknown forces in nature; when we give ourselves wholly to her, without reserve, she lends...
AUGUSTE RODIN Aurora.
AUGUSTE RODIN The modes of expression of men of genius differ as much as their souls, and it is impossible to say ...
AUGUSTE RODIN True artists are almost the only men who do their work for pleasure
AUGUSTE RODIN Sculpture is the art of the hole and the lump.
AUGUSTE RODIN Art is contemplation. It is the pleasure of the mind which searches into nature and which there div...
AUGUSTE RODIN Stock is everything in cooking, at least in French cooking. Without it, nothing can be done. If one&...
AUGUSTE ESCOFFIER The painter, sculptor, writer, and musician are protected by law. So are inventors. But the chef has...
AUGUSTE ESCOFFIER The artist is the confidant of nature, flowers carry on dialogues with him through the graceful bend...
AUGUSTE RODIN Novelty is the universal cry - novelty by hook or by crook! It is an exceedingly common mania among ...
AUGUSTE ESCOFFIER I invent nothing. I rediscover.
AUGUSTE RODIN Everything is so unstable in these times of progress at any cost, and social customs and methods of ...
AUGUSTE ESCOFFIER What feats of ingenuity have we not been forced to perform, at times, in order to meet our customers...
AUGUSTE ESCOFFIER Nobody does good to men with impunity.
AUGUSTE RODIN By voluntarily participating in these programs, and by setting ambitious targets which are more aggr...
GEORGES AUGUSTE What the crowd requires is mediocrity of the highest order
AUGUSTE PREAULT The absurd man is he who never changes
AUGUSTE BARTHELEMY Man enjoys living on the edge of his dreams and neglects the real things of the world which are so b...
AUGUSTE RODIN You will make the world understand my Balzac through these pictures.
AUGUSTE RODIN Inside you there's an artist you don't know about. He's not interested in how things loo...
AUGUSTE RODIN Inside you there's an artist you don't know about. He's not interested in how things look different ...
AUGUSTE RODIN To any artist, worthy of the name, all in nature is beautiful, because his eyes, fearlessly acceptin...
AUGUSTE RODIN As to rocket ships flying between America and Europe, I believe it is worth seriously trying for. Th...
AUGUSTE PICCARD An artist, under pain of oblivion, must have confidence in himself, and listen only to his real mast...
AUGUSTE RENOIR Great dangers give birth to great resolutions.
AUGUSTE ESCOFFIER In fact, ST was one of the first companies to initiate an environmental management program, which wa...
GEORGES AUGUSTE ST has long been a supporter of, and participant in international programs aimed at reducing greenho...
GEORGES AUGUSTE The pain passes, but the beauty remains.
AUGUSTE RENOIR Any sauce whatsoever should be smooth, light (without being liquid), glossy to the eye, and decided ...
AUGUSTE ESCOFFIER True artists are almost the only men who do their work for pleasure.
AUGUSTE RODIN To administer is to govern: to govern is to reign. That is the essence of the problem.
COMTE DE MIRABEAU As you know, God is generally on the side of the big squadrons against the small ones.
COMTE DEBUSSY-RABUTIN Absence is to love what wind is to fire; it extinguishes the small, it enkindles the great.
COMTE DEBUSSY-RABUTIN And you, systematic Utopians, who make an abstraction of human nature, fomentors of atheism, fed on ...
COMTE DE FALLOUX I know you will guess all I leave unsaid.
COMTE DE MIRABEAU When I write down my thoughts, they do not escape me. This action makes me remember my strength whic...
COMTE DE LAUTREAMONT Arithmetic! Algebra! Geometry! Grandiose trinity! Luminous triangle! Whoever has not known you is wi...
COMTE DE LAUTREAMONT Melancholy and sadness are the start of doubt... doubt is the beginning of despair; despair is the c...
COMTE DE LAUTREAMONT We are dancing on a volcano.
COMTE DE SALVANDY Never think that God's delays are God's denials. Hold on; hold fast; hold out. Patience is genius.
COMTE DE BUFFON Love comes from blindness, friendship from knowledge.
COMTE DEBUSSY-RABUTIN Love comes from blindness; friendship from knowledge.
COMTE DEBUSSY-RABUTIN Absence is to love what wind is to a fire; it puts out the little, it kindles the great
COMTE DEBUSSY-RABUTIN War is the national industry of Prussia.
COMTE DE MIRABEAU Nothing baffles the schemes of evil people so much as the calm composure of great souls.
COMTE DE MIRABEAU When one wants to be famous, one has to dive gracefully into rivers of the blood of cannon-blasted b...
COMTE DE LAUTRéAMONT God is usually on the side of big squadrons and against little ones
COMTE DEBUSSY-RABUTIN When we have not what we love, we must love what we have.
COMTE DEBUSSY-RABUTIN When we are not in love too much, we are not in love enough
COMTE DEBUSSY-RABUTIN None, but people of strong passion are capable of rising to greatness.
COMTE DE MIRABEAU Naturally I drew register a little exaggerated, in order to create something new in the sense of a s...
COMTE DE LAUTREAMONT Old ocean, the different species of fish that you nurture have not sworn brotherhood among themselve...
COMTE DE LAUTRéAMONT I was a young, & had deep loves, & my heart would overflow with enthusiasm! And I mingled wi...
COMTE DE LAUTRéAMONT Throughout the centuries, man has considered himself beautiful. I rather suppose that man only belie...
COMTE DE LAUTREAMONT Sleep is a reward for some, a punishment for others. For all, it is a sanction.
COMTE DE LAUTREAMONT I consider that women who are authors, lawyers, and politicians are monsters.
PIERRE AUGUSTE RENOIR There are only two kinds of scholars; those who love ideas and those who hate them.
EMILE-AUGUSTE CHARTIER America is an adorable woman chewing tobacco.
FREDERIC AUGUSTE BARTHOLDI If religion is only human, and its form is man's form, it follows that everything in religion is tru...
EMILE-AUGUSTE CHARTIER I've been forty years discovering that the queen of all colors is black.
PIERRE AUGUSTE RENOIR He bores me. He ought to have stuck to his flying machine. On Leonardo Da Vinci
PIERRE AUGUSTE RENOIR The pain passes, but the beauty remains.
PIERRE-AUGUSTE RENOIR An artist, under pain of oblivion, must have confidence in himself, and listen only to his real mast...
PIERRE-AUGUSTE RENOIR Shall I tell you what I think are the two qualities of a work of art? First, it must be the indescri...
PIERRE-AUGUSTE RENOIR I've been forty years discovering that the queen of all colors is black.
PIERRE-AUGUSTE RENOIR If the painter works directly from nature, he ultimately looks for nothing but momentary effects; he...
PIERRE-AUGUSTE RENOIR I consider women who are authors, lawyers and politicians are monsters
PIERRE-AUGUSTE RENOIR When I've painted a woman's bottom so that I want to touch it, then [the painting] is finished.
PIERRE-AUGUSTE RENOIR The work of art must seize upon you, wrap you up in itself and carry you away. It is the means by wh...
PIERRE-AUGUSTE RENOIR I am still progressing.
PIERRE AUGUSTE RENOIR It is after you have lost your teeth that you can afford to buy steaks
PIERRE-AUGUSTE RENOIR What is fictitious in a novel is not so much the story but the method by which thought develops into...
EMILE-AUGUSTE CHARTIER In painting, as in the other arts, there's not a single process, no matter how insignificant, which ...
PIERRE-AUGUSTE RENOIR I paint with my prick
PIERRE-AUGUSTE RENOIR Ni dieu ni maître!

(Neither God nor master)

[Feminist and labour slogan trans...
LOUIS-AUGUSTE BLANQUI Nothing is more dangerous then having just one idea
EMILE-AUGUSTE CHARTIER To think is to say no
EMILE-AUGUSTE CHARTIER Nothing is more dangerous than an idea, when it's the only one you have
EMILE-AUGUSTE CHARTIER There will always be motive for crime, if we ever get to a point where people attacking each other i...
C. AUGUSTE DUPIN Gentle Spring!--in sunshine clad, Well dost thou thy power display! For Winter maketh the ligh...
CHARLES D'ORLEANS (COMTE D'ANGOULEME) As you know, God is generally on the side of the big squadrons against the small ones.
COMTE DE BUSSY-RABUTIN Art is contemplation. It is the pleasure of the mind which searches into nature and which there divi...
FRANçOIS AUGUSTE RENé RODIN The crime bill passed by the Senate would reinstate the Federal death penalty for certain violent cr...
ALEXANDRE AUGUSTE LEDRU-ROLLIN Let me pass, I have to follow them, I am their leader.
ALEXANDRE AUGUSTE LEDRU-ROLLIN There go my people. I must find out where they are going so I can lead them.
ALEXANDRE AUGUSTE LEDRU-ROLLIN The true mission of the violin is to imitate the accents of the human voice, a noble mission that ha...
CHARLES-AUGUSTE DE BERIOT Nothing has changed in France, there is only a Frenchman the more. [Fr., Il n'y a rien de change ...
COMTE D'ARTOIS (LATER CHARLES X) It is not necessary to change. Survival is not mandatory.
COMTE D'ARTOIS (LATER CHARLES X) Be commonplace and creeping, any you attain all things. [Fr., Mediocre et rampant, et l'on arrive ...
PIERRE AUGUSTE CARON DE BEAUMARCHAIS Calumniate, calumniate; there will always be something which sticks. [Fr., Calumniez, calumniez; ...
PIERRE AUGUSTE CARON DE BEAUMARCHAIS Nothing is so swift as calumny, nothing is more easily propagated, nothing more readily credited, n...
PIERRE AUGUSTE CARON DE BEAUMARCHAIS It is not necessary to retain facts that we may reason concerning them. [Fr., Il n'est pas necess...
PIERRE AUGUSTE CARON DE BEAUMARCHAIS I hasten to laugh at everything, for fear of being obliged to weep. [Fr., Je me hate de me moquer...
PIERRE AUGUSTE CARON DE BEAUMARCHAIS That which is not worth speaking they sing. [Fr., Ce qui ne vaut pas la peine d'etre dit, on le ch...
PIERRE AUGUSTE CARON DE BEAUMARCHAIS Everything ends with songs. [Fr., Tout finit par des chansons.]
PIERRE AUGUSTE CARON DE BEAUMARCHAIS What silly people wits are! [Lat., Que les gens d'esprit sont betes.]
PIERRE AUGUSTE CARON DE BEAUMARCHAIS There are some wounds that one can heal only by deepening them and making them worse.
AUGUSTE VILLIERS DE L'ISLE-ADAM