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Sleep is a reward for some, a punishment for others. For all, it is a sanction.
— Comte De Lautreamont
Men are not allowed to think freely about chemistry and biology: why should they be allowed to think freely about political philosophy?
— Auguste Comte
Oh if only instead of being a hell, the universe had been an immense anus!
— Comte De Lautreamont
I know you will guess all I leave unsaid.
— Honore Gabriel Riqueti, Comte De Mirabeau
History has now been for the first time systematically considered, and has been found, like other phenomena, subject to invariable laws.
— Auguste Comte
Love comes from blindness, friendship from knowledge.
— Roger De Rabutin, Comte De Bussy
As you know, God is generally on the side of the big squadrons against the small ones.
— Roger De Rabutin, Comte De Bussy
Neither I nor the four flippers of the sea-bear of the Boreal ocean have been able to solve the riddle of life.
— Comte De Lautreamont
Truly, Buffon was the father of all thought in natural history in the second half of the 18th century.
— Ernst W. Mayr
Humanity is always made up of more dead than living.
— Auguste Comte
None, but people of strong passion are capable of rising to greatness.
— Honore Gabriel Riqueti, Comte De Mirabeau
Nothing is impossible to the man who will
— Honore Gabriel Riqueti, Comte De Mirabeau
I would not exchange my leisure hours for all the wealth in the world. -Comte De Mirabeau
— Michelle Moran
Atheism is a way of humility. It's to think oneself to be an animal, as we are actually and to allow oneself to become human.
— Andre Comte-Sponville
We say sound things when we do not strive to say to say extraordinary ones.
— Comte De Lautreamont
We must like what we have when we don't have what we like.
— Roger De Rabutin, Comte De Bussy
( ... ) it is grand to contemplate the ruins of cities; but it is grander still to contemplate the ruins of human beings!
— Comte De Lautreamont
Short absence quickens love; long absence kills it.
— Honore Gabriel Riqueti, Comte De Mirabeau
Arithmetic! Algebra! Geometry! Grandiose trinity! Luminous triangle! Whoever has not known you is without sense!
— Comte De Lautreamont
As beautiful as the chance encounter of a sewing machine and an umbrella on an operating table.
— Comte De Lautreamont
Love of justice is for most men only the courage to suffer injustice.
— Comte De Lautreamont
Love has the power of making you believe what you would normally treat with the deepest suspicion.
— Honore Gabriel Riqueti, Comte De Mirabeau
I set my genius to portray the pleasures of cruelty! These are no fickle, artificial delights, they began with man and with him they will die.
— Comte De Lautreamont
Laugh, but weep at the same time. If you cannot weep with your eyes, weep with your mouth. If this is still impossible, urinate.
— Comte De Lautreamont
I shall make it my chief business to see that the [royal] executive power has its place in the constitution.
— Honore Gabriel Riqueti, Comte De Mirabeau
Nothing baffles the schemes of evil people so much as the calm composure of great souls.
— Honore Gabriel Riqueti, Comte De Mirabeau
To understand a science, it is necessary to know its history.
— Auguste Comte
If we do not allow free thinking in chemistry or biology, why should we allow it in morals or politics?
— Auguste Comte
Everything is relative; and only that is absolute.
— Auguste Comte
The dog has no ambition, no self-interest, no desire for vengeance, no fear other than that of displeasing.
— Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte De Buffon
Know yourself to improve yourself.
— Auguste Comte
To write well is to think well, to feel well, and to render well; it is to possess at once intellect, soul, and taste.
— Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte De Buffon
Mathematical Analysis is ... the true rational basis of the whole system of our positive knowledge.
— Auguste Comte
All fear is imaginary, reality is its antidote.
— Andre Comte-Sponville
Ideas govern the world, or throw it into chaos.
— Auguste Comte
Love is a disease which fills you with a desire to be desired ... - Comte de Toulouse
— Henri De Toulouse-Lautrec
If honesty did not exist, we ought to invent it as the best means of getting rich.
— Honore Gabriel Riqueti, Comte De Mirabeau
The cat is the only animal which accepts the comforts but rejects the bondage of domesticity.
— Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte De Buffon
To be and to think are one and the same for us.
— Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte De Buffon
The word 'right' should be excluded from political language, as the word 'cause' from the language of philosophy.
— Auguste Comte
Woman is the most moral element in all humanity.
— Auguste Comte
Nothing is destroyed until it is replaced.
— Auguste Comte
Each department of knowledge passes through three stages. The theoretic stage; the theological stage and the metaphysical or abstract stage.
— Auguste Comte
The dead govern the living.
— Auguste Comte
Demography is destiny.
— Auguste Comte
I shall set down in a few lines how upright Maldoror was during his early years, when he lived happy. There: done.
— Comte De Lautreamont
War is the national industry of Prussia.
— Honore Gabriel Riqueti, Comte De Mirabeau
It is a power stronger than will. Could a stone escape from the laws of gravity? Impossible. Impossible, for evil to form an alliance with good.
— Comte De Lautreamont
The great workman of nature is time.
— Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte De Buffon
The heavens declare the glory of Kepler and Newton.
— Auguste Comte
O Ocean, you remind me somewhat of the bluish marks one sees on the battered backs of cabin boys.
— Comte De Lautreamont
Every science consists in the coordination of facts; if the different observations were entirely isolated, there would be no science.
— Auguste Comte
Induction for deduction, with a view to construction.
— Auguste Comte
I will leave no memoirs.
— Comte De Lautreamont
Poetry must be made by all and not by one.
— Comte De Lautreamont
Farewell until eternity, where you and I shall not find ourselves together.
— Comte De Lautreamont
The great universal family of men is a utopia worthy of the most mediocre logic.
— Comte De Lautreamont
Genius is simply patience carried to the extreme.
— Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte De Buffon
The style is the man himself
— Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte De Buffon
Writing well is at one and the same time good thinking, good feeling, and good expression; it is having wit, soul, and taste, all together.
— Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte De Buffon
There is nothing good in love but the physical part.
— Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte De Buffon
The poet must be more useful than any other member if his tribe.
— Comte De Lautreamont
Poetry should be made by all and not by one.
— Comte De Lautreamont
God is usually on the side of big squadrons and against little ones.
— Roger De Rabutin, Comte De Bussy
Comte de la Fere, Touching Some Events Which Passed in France Toward the End of the Reign of King Louis XIII and the Commencement of the Reign
— Alexandre Dumas
Style supposes the reunion and the exercise of all the intellectual faculties. The style is the man.
— Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte De Buffon
Style is the essence of man
— Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte De Buffon
The universe displays no proof of an all-directing mind.
— Auguste Comte
Hold on; hold fast; hold out. Patience is genius.
— Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte De Buffon
Foreknowledge is power.
— Auguste Comte
... the association of two, or more, apparently alien elements on a plane alien to both is the most potent ignition of poetry.
— Comte De Lautreamont
When one wants to be famous, one has to dive gracefully into rivers of the blood of cannon-blasted bodies.
— Comte De Lautreamont
The only real life is the collective life of the race; individual life has no existence except as an abstraction.
— Auguste Comte
The sacred formula of positivism: love as a principle, the order as a foundation, and progress as a goal.
— Auguste Comte
Never let me hear that foolish word again.
— Honore Gabriel Riqueti, Comte De Mirabeau
He has to perfection, M. le Comte, the art of living his private life with as much public attention as possible.
— Dorothy Dunnett
When one meddles with the direction of a revolution, the problem is not how to make it go but how to keep it under control.
— Honore Gabriel Riqueti, Comte De Mirabeau
To administer is to govern: to govern is to reign. That is the essence of the problem.
— Honore Gabriel Riqueti, Comte De Mirabeau
It is better to be too honest to be polite than to be too polite to be honest!
— Andre Comte-Sponville
He who is about to sing the fourth song is either a man or a stone or a tree.
— Comte De Lautreamont
The music of Wagner imposes mental tortures that only algebra has the right to inflict.
— Paul Bins, Comte De Saint-Victor
Genius is only a greater aptitude for patience.
— Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte De Buffon