"Ideas govern the world, or throw it into chaos."

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Source : Auguste Comte (1975). “Auguste Comte and Positivism: The Essential Writings”, p.499, Transaction Publishers

Auguste Comte

#Ideas Quotes #World Quotes #Chaos Quotes

“I get to choose things that interest me as opposed to trying to get any job that will have me, which for a vast majority of actors is the case.”
“When you can give without expecting anything in return, you have mastered the art of living.”
“If you create the game, then you create the rules.”
“I think I might like to try film again just as an experiment, but I know that I could never do the mainstream thing again.”
“I don't know what I'll be like when I'm 60. I already have the traits of a retired gentleman.”
“I like today and perhaps a little future still, but the past is really something I'm not interested in. So, as far as I'm concerned, I like only the past of things and people I don't know. When I know, I don't care because I knew how it was.”
“I've always started every day by going to the window for a glimpse of the sky. But now I won't have to." "Why not?" She asked softly. "Because I'll see the blue of your eyes instead." "How romantic you are," she murmured with a grin, kissing him gently. "But don't worry. I won't tell anyone.”
“At least we both know how shitty the world is. You wearing a beard as a mask to disguise it. I wearing my tired smile. I don't see how you do it. One hundred thousand university students marching with you. Toward A necessity which is not love but is a name.”

Source : Jack Spicer, Peter Gizzi, Kevin Killian (2008). “My Vocabulary Did this to Me: The Collected Poetry of Jack Spicer”, p.426, Wesleyan University Press

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