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Description: Auguste Comte quote: Foreknowledge is power.

Description: Auguste Comte quote: The Intellect should always be the servant of the Heart, and should never be its slave.

Description: Auguste Comte quote: Language forms a kind of wealth, which all can make use of at once without causing any diminution of the store, and which thus admits a complete community of enjoyment; for all, freely participating in the general treasure, unconsciously aid in its preservation.

Description: Auguste Comte quote: Social positivism only accepts duties, for all and towards all. Its constant social viewpoint cannot include any notion of rights, for such notion always rests on individuality.

Description: Auguste Comte quote: The object of all true Philosophy is to frame a system which shall comprehend human life under every aspect, social as well as individual. It embraces, therefore, the three kinds of phenomena of which our life consists, Thoughts, Feelings, and Actions.

Description: Auguste Comte quote: The dead govern the living.

Description: Ezra Pound quote: Properly, we should read for power. Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ball of light in one's hand.

Description: Ezra Pound quote: Good art however ‘immoral’ it is, is wholly a thing of virtue. Purely and simply that good art can not be immoral. By good art I mean art that bears true witness, I mean the art that is most precise.

Description: Ezra Pound quote: It has been complained, with some justice, that I dump my note-books on the public.

Description: Ezra Pound quote: Genius is the capacity to see ten things where the ordinary man sees one, and where the man of talent sees two or three, plus the ability to register that multiple perception in the material of his art.

Description: Ezra Pound quote: I have tried to write Paradise Do not move Let the wind speak. that is paradise. Let the Gods forgive what I have made Let those I love try to forgive what I have made.

Description: Ezra Pound quote: A slave is one who waits for someone else to free him.

Description: Ezra Pound quote: Real education must ultimately be limited to men who INSISTS on knowing, the rest is mere sheep-herding.

Description: Ezra Pound quote: Literature is news that STAYS news.

Description: Ezra Pound quote: Good writers are those who keep the language efficient. That is to say, keep it accurate, keep it clear.

Description: Ezra Pound quote: Poetry is a sort of inspired mathematics, which gives us equations, not for abstract figures, triangles, spheres, and the like, but for the human emotions. If one has a mind which inclines to magic rather than science, one will prefer to speak of these equations as spells or incantations; it sounds more arcane, mysterious, recondite.

Description: Ezra Pound quote: Artists are the antennae of the race but the bullet-headed many will never learn to trust their great artists.

Description: In a Station of the Metro by Ezra Pound The apparition of these faces in the crowd: Petals on a wet, black bough.

Description: Ezra Pound quote: The only thing one can give an artist is leisure in which to work. To give an artist leisure is actually to take part in his creation.

Description: Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz quote: The love of God consists in an ardent desire to procure the general welfare, and reason teaches me that there is nothing which contributes more to the general welfare of mankind than the perfection of reason.

Description: Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz quote: Il y a jusque dans les exercices des enfans ce qui pourroit arrester le plus grand Mathematicien;

Description: Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz quote: De quelque manière que Dieu aurait créé le monde, il aurait toujours été régulier et dans un certain ordre général. Mais Dieu a choisi celui qui est le plus parfait, c’est-à-dire celui qui est en même temps le plus simple en hypothèses et le plus riche en phénomènes...

Description: Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz quote: In whatever manner God created the world, it would always have been regular and in a certain general order. God, however, has chosen the most perfect, that is to say, the one which is at the same time the simplest in hypothesis and the richest in phenomena.

Description: Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz quote: Or, comme il y a une infinité d'univers possibles dans les idées de Dieu, et qu'il n'en peut exister qu'un seul, il faut qu'il y ait une raison suffisante du choix de Dieu qui le détermine à l'un plutôt qu'à l'autre. Et cette raison ne peut se trouver que dans la convenance, dans les degrés de perfection que ces mondes contiennent, chaque possible ayant droit de prétendre à l'existence à mesure de la perfection qu'il enveloppe.

Description: Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz quote: To love is to be delighted by the happiness of someone, or to experience pleasure upon the happiness of another. I define this as true love.

Description: Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz quote: Now, as there is an infinity of possible universes in the Ideas of God, and as only one of them can exist, there must be a sufficient reason for God's choice, which determines him toward one rather than another. And this reason can be found only in the fitness, or the degrees of perfection, that these worlds contain, since each possible thing has the right to claim existence in proportion to the perfection it involves.

Description: Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz quote: Musica est exercitium arithmeticae occultum nescientis se numerare animi.

Description: Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz quote: Music is a hidden arithmetic exercise of the soul, which does not know that it is counting.

Description: Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz quote: Pour ce qui est des connaissances non-écrites qui se trouvent dispersées parmi les hommes de différents professions, je suis persuadé qu’ils passent de beaucoup tant à l'égard de la multitude que de l'importance, tout ce qui se trouve marqué dans les livres, et que la meilleure partie de notre trésor n'est pas encore enregistrée.

Description: Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz quote: I am convinced that the unwritten knowledge scattered among men of different callings surpasses in quantity and in importance anything we find in books, and that the greater part of our wealth has yet to be recorded.

Description: Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz quote: La nature ne fait jamais des sauts.

Description: Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz quote: Nature does not make leaps.

Description: Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz quote: Il y a aussi deux sortes de vérités, celles de Raisonnement et celle de Fait. Les vérités de Raisonnement sont nécessaires et leur opposé est impossible, et celles de Fait sont contingentes et leur opposé est possible.

Description: Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz quote: There are two kinds of truths: those of reasoning and those of fact. The truths of reasoning are necessary and their opposite is impossible; the truths of fact are contingent and their opposites are possible.

Description: Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz quote: I really believe that languages are the best mirror of the human mind and that a precise analysis of the meanings of words would tell us more than anything else about the operations of the understanding.

Description: Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz quote: Omne possibile exigit existere.