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Auguste Comte

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ELEANOR ROOSEVELT Those who don't know history are doomed to repeat it.
EDMUND BURKE It is a lie.
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EMILY HINES He who doesn't understand history is doomed to repeat it.
PITTACUS LORE Those unable to catalog the past are doomed to repeat it.
LEMONY SNICKET One of the most important things I have found is that no one school of thought has all of the answer...
LEWIS N. ROE Those who forget the past are doomed to repeat it
SARA SHEPARD How lucky I am to have known somebody and something that saying goodbye to is so damned awful.
EVANS G. VALENS Everyone discusses my art and pretends to understand, as if it were necessary to understand, when it...
CLAUDE MONET The market is still waiting for HSBC results, which will have a big impact on the direction of the m...
ANDREW TO Property shares had a technical rebound, but interest rate concerns will still affect properties unt...
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If you don’t know the kind of person I am
and...
WILLIAM STAFFORD 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 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 Eventually I came across another passage. This is what it said:
I am not commanding you, but I ...
NICHOLAS SPARKS To kill a mockingbird. If you haven't read it, I think you should because it is very interesting.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY I will never forget the vision of Jamie walking towards me.
NICHOLAS SPARKS As these images were going through my head, my breathing suddenly went still. I looked at Jamie, the...
NICHOLAS SPARKS You don't have to learn much out of books, it's like if you want to learn about cows, you go milk on...
HARPER LEE You can't really get to know a person until you get in their shoes and walk around in them.
HARPER LEE We believed that to understand literature, you had to understand its place in history and culture.
M. H. ABRAMS It is taken me all my life to understand that it is not necessary to understand everything.
RENE COTY It has taken me all my life to understand it is not necessary to understand everything.
RENE COTY The scientific method gives us information by testing and repeating observable things so that we can...
LEWIS N. ROE Using assistive technology with your child prevents your child from missing out on content solely be...
SANDRA K. COOK Philosophy of science without history of science is empty; history of science without philosophy of ...
IMRE LAKATOS An old adage warns: If you don't know your history, you will be forever condemned to repeat it. Like...
KELLY STEED It is better to be a pragmatist than a lunatic.
DEBASISH MRIDHA We're doomed to repeat the past no matter what. That's what it is to be alive. It's pretty dense kid...
KURT VONNEGUT No one can understand Paris and its history who does not understand that its fierceness is the balan...
G. K. CHESTERTON People discuss my art and pretend to understand as if it were necessary to understand, when it's...
CLAUDE MONET POSITIVISM, n. A philosophy that denies our knowledge of the Real and affirms our ignorance of the A...
AMBROSE BIERCE Science does not know its debt to imagination.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON People discuss my art and pretend to understand as if it were necessary to understand, when it's sim...
CLAUDE MONET 37. It is better to be single and unhappy than unhappily married.
JAMES C. DOBSON Love is always patient and kind. It is never jealous. Love is never boastful or conceited. It is nev...
A WALK TO REMEMBER Science fiction is the most important literature in the history of the world, because it's the histo...
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NICHOLAS SPARKS She filed the image away as an excellent and insulting question to ask the earl at an utterly inappr...
GAIL CARRIGER What we think we know is because we think we know. But how do we first know how to think? Even how d...
EPHDAN It is not necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.
PIERRE DE BEAUMARCHAIS It is not necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.
PIERRE BEAUMARCHAIS It is not necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.
P.A. CARON DE BEAUMARCHAIS It's true in everything, not just in drag: To be a success, you have to understand the landscape...
RUPAUL The product of mental labor - science - always stands far below its value, because the labor-time ne...
KARL MARX The product of mental labor -- science -- always stands far below its value, because the labor-time ...
KARL MARX It is necessary to understand that it is not sin that humbles most, but grace.
ANDREW MURRAY You know," Daddy said, "it's some that can live their whole life out without asking about it and it'...
FLANNERY O'CONNOR I hope people understand how stupid segregation is. People should never judge a book by its color. B...
EUGENE RICHARDSON God is the name we give to the science we don't understand. Science is the name we give to the God w...
STEVE MARABOLI When God gives you a vision, it is for YOU to carry out. Don't try to pass it on to someone else, th...
DEYON ANTEKO PITTER Unpredictability means what it means. I don't know how you define it. It is what it is.
MICHAEL KEATON You know the saying: he who doesn't understand history is doomed to repeat it. And when it's repeate...
PITTACUS LORE open science is returning science to its true essence
MAYANK TRIVEDI Whenever the poetry of myth is interpreted as biography, history, or science, it is killed. The livi...
JOSEPH CAMPBELL Next generations will not know what is to have childhood.
DANIEL MELGAçO Science and religion are not at odds. Science is simply too young to understand.
DAN BROWN When looking for evidence that something exists, it's silly to start by assuming that it is impossib...
LEWIS N. ROE Using the scientific knowledge that we currently possess, we can take simple logical steps, backed b...
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JAMES C. DOBSON The human will be the only mammal in history to fully understand that its own self inflicted extinct...
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WILLIAM GIBSON It is not necessary to hope in order to understand, nor to succeed in order to persevere.
CHARLES THE BOLD It is not necessary to hope in order to understand, nor to succeed in order to persevere.
CHARLES THE BOLD To love is to act.
VICTOR HUGO War is no solution to peace.
BEN OAK I know now: what is is all that matters. Not the thing you know is meant to be, not what could be, n...
AUGUSTEN BURROUGHS When our lips parted, he sighed. “I love those eyes, angel. When they look at me, I feel like anyt...
BIJOU HUNTER Science can only ascertain what is, but not what should be, and outside of its domain value judgment...
ALBERT EINSTEIN Science can only ascertain what is, but not what should be, and outside of its domain value judgemen...
ALBERT EINSTEIN There are just some kind of men who-who're so busy worrying about the next world they've never learn...
HARPER LEE The role of the Christian is to let other people know what Jesus has done, not to think of themselve...
LEWIS N. ROE Naturalistic atheism debunks itself. It has no power to explain even some of the most basic principl...
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PETER WESSEL ZAPFFE the better we understand history, the faster history alters its course, and the faster our knowledge...
YUVAL NOAH HARARI To understand people, is an impossible thing for a man or women to accomplish, but to understand a p...
AUSTIN J SCIME I want to be honest, and even if that's scary, I know it's worth it.
EMM GRYNER Science can only ascertain what is, but not what should be, and outside of its domain value, elly ju...
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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.
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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.
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AUGUSTE RODIN There are unknown forces in nature; when we give ourselves wholly to her, without reserve, she lends...
AUGUSTE RODIN Aurora.
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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.
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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 ...
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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...
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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.
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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.
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COMTE DE LAUTREAMONT Old ocean, the different species of fish that you nurture have not sworn brotherhood among themselve...
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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.
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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...
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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
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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.
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