"The dead govern the living."

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Source : Auguste Comte (1875). “System of Positive Polity: Social statics; or, The abstract theory of human order”, p.381

Auguste Comte

#Tradition Quotes

“A truth that is merely handed on, without being thought anew from its very foundations, has lost its vital power.”

Source : Hans Urs von Balthasar (1993). “Razing the Bastions: On the Church in this Age”, p.18, Ignatius Press
“The straight line, a respectable optical illusion which ruins many a man.”
“I'm a business first and foremost so whatever my business is, it's separate from my personal. It's like whatever I do business wise, it's done in the business fashion whether it's promoting , marketing, whatever I'm doing.”
“But for us to assume that God could not act in other ways is, I think, to put God in an awfully small box.”
“Even though I build buildings and I pursue my architecture, I pursue it as an artist. I deliberately keep a tiny studio. I don't want to be an architectural firm. I want to remain an artist.”
“We must be like the fountain or spring that is continually emptying itself of all that it has and is continually being refilled from an invisible source. To be continually giving out for the good of our fellows undeterred by fear of poverty and reliant on the unfailing bounty of the Source of all wealth and all good -- this is the secret of right living.”
“Some artists imagine they've got a hold on this apparatus, which in fact has got a hold of them. As a result, they end up supporting a cultural prison that is out of their control”
“When you get involved romantically with someone, sometimes you end up overlooking things that you could help people with better, as a friend.”

Source : Source: collider.com

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