FastSaying

The only real life is the collective life of the race; individual life has no existence except as an abstraction.


Auguste Comte

  Email Quote to Friends   Link to Quote   Create Short URL  Publish Text About This Quote   Share on Facebook, Twitter, and more
  See Recommended Quotes For You

Related

From the Kindle Book Reflections in the Mirror of Life:
“In a slum somewhere in India
As...
THE PROPHET OF LIFE Maya Angelou had the ability to glean inspiration out of pain.
THE PROPHET OF LIFE If we cannot always be entirely sane in our relationships, the kindest thing we can do for those who...
THE SCHOOL OF LIFE There is a collective as well as an individual humor inclining peoples to sadness or cheerfulness, m...
EMILE DURKHEIM Life begins somewhere and ends somewhere with time but to get somewhere with the life you have depen...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH Romanes eunt domus
LIFE OF BRIAN Could you please be as silent as the G in lasagna?
ABOUT LIFE Never under any circumstances take a sleeping pill and a laxative on the same night.
ABOUT LIFE I always dream of being a millionaire like my uncle!... He's dreaming too.
ABOUT LIFE I dream of a better tomorrow, where chickens can cross the road and not be questioned about their mo...
ABOUT LIFE sometimes you feel blessed but other times you feel stressed
LIFE REACTIONS If everyone falls down no one will be there to pick us up, therefore don't try to pull others down w...
LIFE REACTIONS Don't just stress, but so something about it
LIFE REACTIONS Humans are selfish, so don't expect anything from them. Provide yourself with everything
LIFE REACTIONS Love is like a hole, the more you love someone the deeper it gets
LIFE REACTIONS Always be yourself, and never a reflection of others
LIFE REACTIONS One day you will find "the one" who deserves all what you want to give. The one who appreciates your...
ROSE'S LIFE If it doesn't open, it's not your door
LIFE ADVANCER Death is the only evidence of life. If there were no death, there would have been only an existence.
EPHDAN The meaning of life: For centuries "man" searched for the meaning of life. On that journey, the valu...
DORIS J TORRES The spiritual life is not a life before, after, or beyond our everyday existence. No, the spiritual ...
HENRI NOUWEN What is this thing called life? I believe
That the earth and the stars too, and the whole glitt...
ROBINSON JEFFERS Nothing is more powerful than an individual acting out of his conscience, thus helping to bring the ...
NORMAN COUSINS I believe that God has a plan and purpose not only for the human race, but for my individual life.
ANNE GRAHAM LOTZ Nothing exists except by virtue of a disequilibrium, an injustice. All existence is a theft paid for...
REMY DE GOURMONT Road to destination is often very straight with journey smooth, but majority has tendency to meander...
ANUJ SOMANY The tree of life is made of purity, eternity and has the bark of wisdom and enlightenment.With its b...
GARY F EVANS... Home is watching the moon rise over the open, sleeping land and having someone you can call to the w...
STEPHEN KING We all are wearing many hundred glasses of different colors. So, everyone see the world in different...
MUDITHA CHAMPIKA I don't know the meaning of life. I don't know why we are here. I think life is full of anxieties an...
CHARLES M. SCHULZ We all are wearing many hundred glasses of different colors. Therefore, everyone sees the world in d...
MUDITHA CHAMPIKA The transformation of environment has become the purpose of human life; life seems real only insofar...
RUDOLF CHRISTOPH EUCKEN Debt is the basis of man's existence in life,without debt no life.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) Life has no limitations, except the ones you make.
LES BROWN Life has no limitations, except the ones you make.
LES BROWN Dancing is the loftiest, the most moving, the most beautiful of the arts, because it is no mere tran...
HAVELOCK ELLIS A man lives not only his personal life, as an individual, but also, consciously or unconsciously, th...
THOMAS MANN Life is short, and that's why, I don't test people; because we all fail tests sometimes, but that is...
C. JOYBELL C. The school of life & the school of marriage are the only institutions in life were there are no grad...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) It is solely by risking life that freedom is obtained; . . . the individual who has not staked his o...
GEORG WILHELM FRIEDRICH HEGEL Although complex, life is simple. It is individual.

Living is the challenge. It is intera...
1 MINUTO NA PALMA DA MãO Be nobel. Be the light as if you are the source of life.
DEBASISH MRIDHA Keep learning! Learning means growing. He who always learns knows how to grow in maturity. When we s...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH Then that's what the Northern Lights are. All the lives that we're not living.
ADI ALSAID You've always lived a life of pretense, not a real life-- a simulated existence, not a genuine exist...
THOMAS BERNHARD You cannot threaten a mad man with madness
SOTONYE ANGA When an individual fear or apathy passes by the unfortunate, life is of no account.
HANIEL LONG When an individual fear or apathy passes by the unfortunate, life is of no account.
HANIEL LONG Through pain we grow, through growth we find understanding, through understanding we find acceptance...
DAMION JAMES LINDER We believe in the dignity of man as an individual, whatever his race, colour or creed, and his right...
LAL BAHADUR SHASTRI Progress is the life-style of man. The general life of the human race is called Progress, and so is ...
VICTOR HUGO The universe seeks equilibriums; it prefers to disperse energy, disrupt organization, and maximize c...
SIDDHARTHA MUKHERJEE The universe bursts into existence from life, not the other way around as we have been taught. For e...
ROBERT LANZA Only in men's imagination does every truth find an effective and undeniable existence. Imagination, ...
JOSEPH CONRAD The earth keeps turning but it never says why.
MARTY RUBIN The unfortunate thing is that, sometimes, we slip, but, fortunately, consciously or unconsciously, w...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH There is no meaning to life except the meaning man gives his life by the unfolding of his powers.
ERICH FROMM Individual courage is the only interesting thing in life.
SIMONE SIGNORET The question is not, will there be difficulties and threats to our existence, but how will we deal w...
BERNIE SIEGEL There is no meaning to life except the meaning man gives his life by unfolding of his powers.
ERICH FROMM It may take a lifetime for an individual to live, but it takes just under four seconds for the occup...
BRADLEY SOMER To lead a successful life, then, it's a good idea to work out what you really want. Then get togethe...
JOHN C. PARKIN As different streams having different sources all mingle their waters in the sea, so different tende...
SWAMI VIVEKANANDA Anyone can steer the ship when the sea is calm
PUBLILIUS SYRUS The only objection against the Bible is a bad life
JOHN WILMOT (2ND EARL OF ROCHESTER) Don't go around thinking the world owes you a living. It was here first.
MARK TWAIN The power to know that life is a temporal abode is by learning never to underate death.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) Life is a bridge over the sea of changes. Do not build a house on it.
SRI SATHYA SAI BABA The essence of life is to live and die for the principle of the right
DR.MOHAMMED FAIG ABAD ALRAZAK There is no meaning to life except the meaning man gives to his life by the unfolding of his powers.
ERICH FROMM The end is the matter! A step to the end is a factor!
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH To see the world, things dangerous to come to, to see behind walls, draw closer, to find each other,...
THE SECRET LIFE OF WALTER MITTY DOWNLOAD FREE 90541 The same as real life, there is no happily ever after.
CHUCK PALAHNIUK Life is an audition.
THOMAS FLAJNIK - ANTICHIMERAPODAL There is No such thing like 'HAPPY ENDINGS' in Real life.. It Only happens in Movies.. So Don't wait...
DINACE KUMAR C Thus the great wind, the afflatus, gave breath and turbulence to all life; and inspiration clung to ...
RICHARD BECKHAM II Walter Mitty: To see the world, things dangerous to come to, to see behind walls, draw closer, to fi...
JAMES THURBER Sean O'Connell: Sometimes I don't. If I like a moment, for me, personally, I don't like to have the ...
JAMES THURBER Life is a journey through a foreign land.
O.R. MELLING What's the meaning of life? Other people.
JOHN GREEN The secret of life is not in the Die And Live,
The secret of life is Don't ever lose your sense...
SUSHIL SINGH My heart is strong,
I will not fail,
I won't be wronged,
I will prevail.
ALEXANDRA LANC I didn't change, I just found myself.
GOOD LIFE QUOTES A life of faith is an enduring sacred-existence.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA The only real things in life is the unexpected things. Everything else is just an illusion.
WATKIN TUDOR JONES There is no real evil in life, except great pain; all the rest is imaginary, and depends on the li...
MARIE DE SEVIGNE There is no real evil in life, except great pain; all the rest is imaginary, and depends on the ligh...
MARIE DE SEVIGNE There is no real evil in life, except great pain; all the rest is imaginary, and depends on the lig...
MARIE DE SEVIGNE Philosophy not only begins with the individual, but also ends with the individual. For an individual...
LIN YUTANG Thus, there can be no real disarmament except on the basis of the collective peace system of the Lea...
ARTHUR HENDERSON The kind of stillness of being nothing, and doing things from that emptiness, make one strong.
SHASHI I only want to write. And there's no college for that except life.
DODIE SMITH He who fails to know his real and true competitor shall never be able to give a good account of his ...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH In the past, our tradition was to rename parks only for an individual related to the life of the par...
WARNER JOHNSTON I've never done anything but dream. This, and this alone, has been the meaning of my life. My only r...
FERNANDO PESSOA The will has no overall purpose, aims at no highest good, and can never be satisfied. Although it is...
CHRISTOPHER JANAWAY The only reason for the existence of a novel is that it does attempt to represent life.
HENRY JAMES Some people make a bad bed, they just have to lie in it.
VIRGINIA EUWER WOLFF Pause and ponder when you get to a certain point in the journey of life. Know your destination and m...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH Life is not a true or false question.
REBECCA MCKINSEY

More Auguste Comte

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