Ideas govern the world, or throw it into chaos.
Auguste Comte
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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 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 It's so much easier to throw rocks than it is to govern.
KAREN BASS Govern thyself then you will be able to govern the world.
SOURCE UNKNOWN Syllables govern the world.
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW Syllables govern the world.
JOHN SELDEN We would have no regulatory authority over anything other than native wildlife. This would throw our...
MARLA RAE Ideas control the world.
JAMES A. GARFIELD Every thought which genius and piety throw into the world alters the world.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON I throw ideas out into the open when I really should just be writing them down in a journal.
DAN DEACON Designers can create normalcy out of chaos; they can clearly communicate ideas through the organizin...
JEFFERY VEEN It ends or it doesn't.
That’s what you say. That’s
how you get through it.
The tu...
CAITLYN SIEHL Fortune and humor govern the world.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD Intellectual integrity goes beyond being clever-it requires that you put your ideas into the world.
SETH GODIN Why are you suggesting something… then deny to tell the whole thing?
DEYTH BANGER We want the (partnership) agencies to think outside the box for the next regional plan, but we're al...
JULIE REGAN It is impossible to rightly govern the world without God and the Bible. –GEORGE WASHINGTON
CHUCK MISSLER Storytelling is the most powerful way to put ideas into the world today.
ROBERT MCAFEE BROWN The way to get good ideas is to get lots of ideas and throw the bad ones away.
LINUS PAULING The way to get good ideas is to get lots of ideas, and throw the bad ones away
DR. LINUS PAULING I sometimes start keeping a journal about the writing process itself. Particularly when I get the id...
SUE MONK KIDD You fear that if you lower your guard for even one second your whole world will disintegrate into ch...
DOUGLAS COUPLAND This is typical of these world championships -- it's total chaos. It's ridiculous that something lik...
BENJAMIN RAICH Globalization has changed us into a company that searches the world, not just to sell or to source, ...
JACK WELCH I mean, I'm with him, and he's with me, and that's the way it's meant to eternally be.
ALYSON NOEL The best way to get great ideas is to get lots of ideas and throw the bad ones away.
CHARLES THOMPSON Passion and prejudice govern the world; only under the name of reason.
JOHN WESLEY Passion and prejudice govern the world; only under the name of reason
JOHN WESLEY Comte is the cheese for fondue. In France, they make these fabulous broiled open-faced sandwiches wi...
EMILY HINES There is no longer a single idea explaining everything, but an infinite number of essences giving a ...
ALBERT CAMUS The question before the human race is, whether the God of nature shall govern the world by his own l...
JOHN ADAMS We have done almost everything in pairs since Noah, except govern. And the world has suffered for it...
BELLA ABZUG Great faith overcomes laws of nature that govern physical world.
TOBA BETA When the mind withdraws into itself and dispenses with facts it makes only chaos.
EDITH HAMILTON Before you dive in head first, make sure the water is not shallow.
KATHERINE DIVOLIS We make sense of the world intentionally. Faced with chaos, we seek or make the familiar, and build ...
URSULA K. LE GUIN Comte (pronounced con-tay), is the most popular cheese in France, and when I tasted it, I could unde...
EMILY HINES From today we will not allow armed chaos, the taking of the law into individual hands, or attacks on...
MAHMOUD ABBAS Chaos results when the world changes faster than people
WILL DURANT Chaos results when the world changes faster than people
HENRY BROOKS ADAMS Chaos in the world brings uneasiness, but it also allows the opportunity for creativity and growth.
TOM BARRETT Globalization has changed us into a company that searches the world, not just to sell or to source, ...
JACK WELCH At times our lives seem like that of a tranquil island in a sea of chaos. The battle is to keep this...
SANJEEVA ANANTHAN Time is needed to convert all ideas and added values into the tangible products that benefits the wo...
SUNDAY ADELAJA To me success means effectiveness in the world, that I am able to carry my ideas and values into the...
MAXINE HONG KINGSTON To me success means effectiveness in the world, that I am able to carry my ideas and values into the...
MAXINE HONG KINGSTON There are more ideas on earth than intellectuals imagine. And these ideas are more active, stronger,...
MICHEL FOUCAULT There are more ideas on earth than intellectuals imagine. And these ideas are more active, stronger,...
MICHEL FOUCAULT There are more ideas on earth than intellectuals imagine. And these ideas are more active, stronger,...
MICHEL FOUCAULT I liked that music was a window into a world with a lot of unpredictability and chaos; it was almost...
K. FLAY Words are small shapes in the gorgeous chaos of the world.
DIANE ACKERMAN Here is the world, sound as a nut, perfect, not the smallest piece of chaos left, never a stitch nor...
RALPH WALDO EMERSON When any part of the world erupts in chaos, we send in the Marines. We ask them to do the hardest th...
HENRIETTA HOLSMAN In a world where we are forced to conform to society, it is necessary to have personal chaos
T. ALAN ARMSTRONG Monarchy degenerates into tyranny, aristocracy into oligarchy, and democracy into savage violence an...
POLYBIUS Remember, your prerogative is to govern, and not to serve the things of this world.
THOMAS KEMPIS The statesman cannot govern without stability of belief, true or
false.
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW A bad head turns the rest of the organism into chaos.
MARIANA FULGER Throw a theory into the fire; it only spoils life.
MIKHAIL BAKUNIN If you look hard enough, chaos turns into order the way letters turn into words.
PATRICIA MCCORMICK There are more ideas on earth than intellectuals imagine. And these ideas are more active, stronger,...
MICHEL FOUCAULT Finally, I want to make the point that we are Republicans. We are the majority. It is going to be a ...
JACK KINGSTON Architecture can't fully represent the chaos and turmoil that are part of the human personality, but...
FRANK STELLA In the chaos of the world, you and I did find love...
AVIJEET DAS He'd been back for about two weeks, and everything in Laurel's life had been thrown into Chaos. Sexy...
APRILYNNE PIKE The Athenians govern the Greeks; I govern the Athenians; you, my wife, govern me; your son governs y...
THEMISTOCLES When you agree to work with a filmmaker, it's important that you accept their world. It's an...
TAHAR RAHIM So we reach into the raging chaos, and we cling to it, and we tell ourselves it has meaning, and tha...
ANNE RICE You can't just hoard your ideas inside the ivory tower. You have to get them out into the world.
GEORGE M. CHURCH Well, I'm more lopsided than a one legged badger," mewed Graypaw, breaking off from his carful stalk...
ERIN HUNTER No milk. It is black coffee, pure but strong, that fortifies against the powers of darkness with whi...
ROBERT AICKMAN I thought climbing the Devil's Thumb would fix all that was wrong with my life. In the end, of cours...
JON KRAKAUER Ideas control the world.
JAMES GARFIELD It threw me about 12 feet into a wall, ... It was total chaos ... the floor was falling. The ceiling...
BILL KEARNEY It threw me about 12 feet into a wall. It was total chaos ... the floor was falling. The ceiling was...
BILL KEARNEY The link between ideas and action is rarely direct. There is almost always an intermediate step in w...
ERIC HOFFER The link between ideas and action is rarely direct. There is almost always an intermediate step in w...
ERIC HOFFER ..giving power to negative thoughts or fears was bringing ideas to life in physical world,idea in mi...
CHRISTINA WESTOVER Mobs will never do to govern states or command armies
JOHN ADAMS Talk about your ideas today & everyday for ideas rule the world.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) Ideas emerge when a part of the real or imagined world is studied for its own sake.
E. O. WILSON I'm willing to throw my body in front of the bus to stop bad ideas.
ELIZABETH WARREN Themosticles said "The Athenians govern the Greeks; I govern the Athenians; you, my wife, govern me;...
PLUTARCH We need to use the United Nations Security Council and believe that preserving law and order in toda...
VLADIMIR PUTIN America was probably Europe's equal scientifically by the end of World War I and certainly surpa...
SAM KEAN I am always looking for ideas, whether it is in art on the street or in my world travels. It comes t...
COLLEEN ATWOOD A man cannot govern a nation if he cannot govern a city; he cannot govern a city if he cannot gover...
HUGO GROTIUS Now I'm a glorified bureaucrat holding on by my fingernails as we all slide into super-powered chaos...
MATT KINDT It's a cruel and random world, but the chaos is all so beautiful.
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COMTE DEBUSSY-RABUTIN Absence is to love what wind is to fire; it extinguishes the small, it enkindles the great.
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COMTE DE FALLOUX I know you will guess all I leave unsaid.
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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.
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PIERRE-AUGUSTE RENOIR I've been forty years discovering that the queen of all colors is black.
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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