Comte D'artois Quotes

#1. Only well-written works will descend to posterity. Fulness of knowledge, interesting facts, even useful inventions, are no pledge of immortality, for they may be employed by more skilful hands; they are outside the man; the style is the man himself.

Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte De Buffon

#2. The cat is the only animal which accepts the comforts but rejects the bondage of domesticity.

Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte De Buffon

#3. Mathematical Analysis is ... the true rational basis of the whole system of our positive knowledge.

Auguste Comte

#4. Poetry must be made by all and not by one.

Comte De Lautreamont

#5. Ignorance produced genera, and science produced, and will continue to produce, proper names; nor of these shall we be afraid to increase the number, whenever we shall have occasion to denote different species.

Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte De Buffon

#6. Induction for deduction, with a view to construction.

Auguste Comte

#7. The human mind cannot create anything. It produces nothing until having been fertilized by experience and meditation; its acquisitions are the germs of its production.

Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte De Buffon

#8. No, what worries me, I readily admit, is everything (that is to say, anything and everything) - everything, that is, except the All, which I find soothing.

Andre Comte-Sponville

#9. Positivism is a theory of knowledge according to which the only kind of sound knowledge available to human kind is that if science grounded in observation.

Auguste Comte

#10. In mathematics we find the primitive source of rationality; and to mathematics must the biologists resort for means to carry out their researches.

Auguste Comte

#11. Nothing baffles the schemes of evil people so much as the calm composure of great souls.

Honore Gabriel Riqueti, Comte De Mirabeau

#12. If we do not allow free thinking in chemistry or biology, why should we allow it in morals or politics?

Auguste Comte

#13. In Ireland, there are the same fossils, the same shells and the same sea bodies, as appear in America, and some of them are found in no other part of Europe.

Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte De Buffon

#14. He [man] abuses equally other animals and his own species, the rest of whom live in famine, languish in misery, and work only to satisfy the immoderate appetite and the still more insatiable vanity of this human being who, destroying others by want, destroys himself by excess.

Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte De Buffon

#15. None, but people of strong passion are capable of rising to greatness.

Honore Gabriel Riqueti, Comte De Mirabeau

#16. Throughout the centuries, man has considered himself beautiful. I rather suppose that man only believes in his own beauty out of pride; that he is not really beautiful and he suspects this himself; for why does he look on the face of his fellow-man with such scorn?

Comte De Lautreamont

#17. God is usually on the side of big squadrons and against little ones.

Roger De Rabutin, Comte De Bussy

#18. Love is a disease which fills you with a desire to be desired ... - Comte de Toulouse

Henri De Toulouse-Lautrec

#19. All the work of the crystallographers serves only to demonstrate that there is only variety everywhere where they suppose uniformity ... that in nature there is nothing absolute, nothing perfectly regular.

Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte De Buffon

#20. The dead govern the living.

Auguste Comte

#21. Although the works of the Creator may be in themselves all equally perfect, the animal is, as I see it, the most complete work of nature, and man is her masterpiece.

Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte De Buffon

#22. Who is he, the ill-disposed gentleman in pink?" inquire the Comte, when they were out of earshot.
"A creature of no importance," shrugged Philip.
"So I see. Yet he contrives to arouse your anger.?"
"Yes," admitted Philip. "I do not like the color of his coat.

Georgette Heyer

#23. Naturally I drew register a little exaggerated, in order to create something new in the sense of a sublime literature that sings of despair only in order to oppress the reader, and make him desire the good as the remedy.

Comte De Lautreamont

#24. Truly, Buffon was the father of all thought in natural history in the second half of the 18th century.

Ernst W. Mayr

#25. Style supposes the reunion and the exercise of all the intellectual faculties. The style is the man.

Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte De Buffon

#26. Let us suppose, that the Old and New worlds were formerly but one continent, and that, by a violent earthquake, the ancient Atalantis [sic] of Plato was sunk ... The sea would necessarily rush in from all quarters, and form what is now called the Atlantic ocean.

Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte De Buffon

#27. 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

#28. She wanders on like a poplar leaf borne upon a whirlwind of unconscious associations, she, her youth, her illusions and her former happiness remembered now through the mists of a ruined mind.

Comte De Lautreamont

#29. If honesty did not exist, we ought to invent it as the best means of getting rich.

Honore Gabriel Riqueti, Comte De Mirabeau

#30. Only those works which are well-written will pass to posterity: the amount of knowledge, the uniqueness of the facts, even the novelty of the discoveries are no guarantees of immortality ... These things are exterior to a man but style is the man himself.

Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte De Buffon