Condorcet Quotes

#1. After Montesquieu, the next great addition to Sociology (which is the term I may be allowed to invent to designate Social Physics) was made by Condorcet, proceeding on the views suggested by his illustrious friend Turgot.

Auguste Comte

#2. Live your Art. Don't think about it.

Bill Viola

#3. The hurt she suffered has encircled her, it seems: it is the virgin's bower, that vine that cannot bear its own weight but lives by twining itself around another, making it's host unrecognizable.

Christina Meldrum

#4. People still retain the errors of their childhood, their nation, and their age, long after they have accepted the truths needed to refute them.

Nicolas De Caritat, Marquis De Condorcet

#5. Enjoy your own life without comparing it with that of another.

Marquis De Condorcet

#6. It has never yet been supposed, that all the facts of nature, and all the means of acquiring precision in the computation and analysis of those facts, and all the connections of objects with each other, and all the possible combinations of ideas, can be exhausted by the human mind.

Nicolas De Condorcet

#7. [All phenomena] are equally susceptible of being calculated, and all that is necessary, to reduce the whole of nature to laws similar to those which Newton discovered with the aid of the calculus, is to have a sufficient number of observations and a mathematics that is complex enough.

Marquis De Condorcet

#8. I've always felt that there's a point where a piece seems to be alive, that is, living. And that's the point where I know the composition is finished.

David Tudor

#9. I hope to see the bringing together of all the best educated people of the earth into a worldwide Congress of Scientists.

Marquis De Condorcet

#10. Nothing could be more idiotic and absurd than the doctrine of the trinity.

Robert Green Ingersoll

#11. For a more than miffed Midnight, fate was for emperors, fools and soppy lovers: - fate was the self-important egotism of those doing well, the sheer unbearable arrogance of the living and loved.

Tom Conrad

#12. There does not exist any religious system, or supernatural extravagance, which is not founded on an ignorance of the laws of nature.

Marquis De Condorcet

#13. You want me in there so badly, don't you?

Sibylla Matilde

#14. Love is a jeering mime.

Kenneth Rand

#15. I am proud of my heritage and my family.

Brian Sandoval

#16. Men do not often dare to avow, even to themselves, the slow progress reason has made in their minds; but they are ready to follow it if it is presented to them in a lively and striking manner, and forces them to recognize it.

Nicolas De Caritat, Marquis De Condorcet

#17. Never hesitate to steal a good idea.

Al Neuharth

#18. Under the freest constitution ignorant people are still slaves.

Nicolas De Caritat, Marquis De Condorcet

#19. The truth belongs to those who seek it, not to those who claim to own it.

Nicolas De Condorcet