"All good intellects have repeated, since Bacon's time, that there can be no real knowledge but which is based on observed facts."

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Source : Auguste Comte (1858). “The Positive Philosophy of Auguste Comte”, p.27

Auguste Comte

#Real Quotes #Atheism Quotes #Facts Quotes

“When I go out there onstage, I want to be more than just a blocky guy who waddles onto the posing platform. I want the girls to feel something.”
“We deem those happy who from the experience of life have learnt to bear its ills without being overcome by them.”
“I know the devil is working against me. I already know my mission and what I'm really here to do. People may not see it but he's been working overtime. He's not even able to mess with other artists because he's got so many demons around me.”
“If the constitutional process is not brought to a successful conclusion before the European elections, then the whole process might run out of steam.”
“A good education is that which prepares us for our future sphere of action and makes us contented with that situation in life in which God, in his infinite mercy, has seen fit to place us, to be perfectly resigned to our lot in life, whatever it may be.”

Source : Ann Plato (1988). “Essays: Including Biographies and Miscellaneous Pieces, in Prose and Poetry”, p.28, Oxford University Press on Demand
“Sadness does not inhere in things; it does not reach us from the world and through mere contemplation of the world. It is a product of our own thought. We create it out of whole cloth.”
“The difference between a winner and a loser - they both failed, but the winner gets back up and does it again and again until it goes his way.”
“There are many of us that are willing to do great things for the Lord, but few of us are willing to do little things.”

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