Jean Baptiste Grenouille Quotes

And he sent the gentle sun of his smile upon the land; whereupon to a bud, the hosts of blossoms unfolded their glory, from one end of his empire unto the other, creating a single rainbowed carpet woven from myriad precious capsules of fragrance. ~ Peter Süskind

Like Molière's M. Jourdain, who spoke prose all his life without knowing it, mathematicians have been reasoning for at least two millennia without being aware of all the principles underlying what they were doing. The real nature of the tools of their craft has become evident only within recent times A renaissance of logical studies in modern times begins with the publication in 1847 of George Boole's 'The Mathematical Analysis of Logic'. ~ Ernest Nagel

The mind sees, the will commands, the man acts. What is it then to act? To act is to produce something. If you have produced nothing
if no result has been the fruit of your will, you have done nothing. ~ Jean-Baptiste Henri Lacordaire

I want to work, so I'm going where the work is. ~ Marianne Jean-Baptiste

Every artist loves applause. The praise of his contemporaries is the most valuable part of his recompense. ~ Jean-Baptiste Rousseau

The occupation of the stock-jobber yields no new or useful product; consequently having no product of his own to give in exchange, he has no revenue to subsist upon, but what he contrives to make out of the unskilfulness or ill-fortune of gamesters like himself. ~ Jean-Baptiste Say

Capital can seldom be made productive, without undergoing several changes both of form and of place, the risk of which is always more or less alarming to persons unaccustomed to the operations of industry; whereas, on the contrary, landed property produces without any change of either quality or position. ~ Jean-Baptiste Say

Taxation being a burthen, must needs weigh lightest on each individual, when it bears upon all alike. ~ Jean-Baptiste Say

Duty is the grandest of ideas, because it implies the idea of God, of the soul, of liberty, of responsibility, of immortality. ~ Jean-Baptiste Henri Lacordaire

I love a serious preacher, who speaks for my sake and not for his own; who seeks my salvation, and not his own vain glory. He best deserves to be heard who uses speech only to clothe his thoughts, and his thoughts only to promote truth and virtue. ~ Jean Baptiste Massillon

Be guided by feelings alone. Abandon yourself to your first impression. If you really have been touched, you will convey to others the sincerity of your emotion. ~ Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot

I actually like getting up to blue skies. ~ Marianne Jean-Baptiste

Nothing is achieved without solitude. ~ Jean-Baptiste Henri Lacordaire

I'm going to play,' says Armand, lacing his fingers and cracking the knuckles. 'A pair of these lads can pump for me.'
'Is this a time for playing?' asks Jean Baptiste. Then, 'You are right. You have never been more so. ~ Andrew Miller

Who told you that one paints with colors? One makes use of colors, but one paints with emotions. ~ Jean-Baptiste-Simeon Chardin

The entrepreneur shifts economic resources out of an area of lower and into an area of higher productivity and greater yield. ~ Jean-Baptiste Say

Astronomy was born of superstition; eloquence of ambition, hatred, falsehood, and flattery; geometry of avarice; physics of an idle curiosity; and even moral philosophy of human pride. Thus the arts and sciences owe their birth to our vices. ~ Jean-Baptiste Rousseau

The manner in which things exist and take place, constitutes what is called the nature of things; and a careful observation of the nature of things is the sole foundation of all truth. ~ Jean-Baptiste Say

Valuation is vague and arbitrary, when there is no assurance that it will be generally acquiesced in by others. ~ Jean-Baptiste Say

The United States will have the honour of proving experimentally, that true policy goes hand in hand with moderation and humanity. ~ Jean-Baptiste Say

I have seen many phases of life; I have moved in imperial circles, I have been a Minister of State; but if I had to live my life again, I would always remain in my laboratory, for the greatest joy of my life has been to accomplish original scientific work, and, next to that, to lecture to a set of intelligent students. ~ Jean-Baptiste Dumas

I'm a member of the African diaspora: my parents left the Caribbean and came to London for a better life. ~ Marianne Jean-Baptiste

It should be remembered that the foundation of the social contract is property; and its first condition, that every one should be maintained in the peaceful possession of what belongs to him. ~ Jean-Baptiste Rousseau

Art is nature as seen through a temperament. ~ Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot

They must know but little of mankind who can imagine that, after they have been once seduced by luxury, they can ever renounce it. ~ Jean-Baptiste Rousseau

In preparing a study or a picture, it seems to me very important to begin by an indication of the darkest values ... and to continue in order to the lightest value. From the darkest to the lightest I would establish twenty shades. ~ Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot

The first things to study are form and values. For me, these are the things that are the basics of what is serious in art. ~ Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot

Charity is that sweet-smelling savor of Jesus Christ, which vanishes and is extinguished from the moment that it is exposed. ~ Jean Baptiste Massillon

Agreeable advice is seldom useful advice. ~ Jean Baptiste Massillon

There needs to be more film directors of colour. They bandy about the word 'diversity' a lot, but when I say 'of colour,' I mean Asian, black - I mean people of all colour. We need to have those voices given the opportunity, not told that their films will not be distributed or will not sell well abroad. ~ Marianne Jean-Baptiste

An uniformity of weights and measures, arranged upon mathematical principles, would be a benefit to the whole commercial world, if it were wise enough to adopt such an expedient. ~ Jean-Baptiste Say

I love the mountains, the light. I'm a real light junkie. ~ Marianne Jean-Baptiste

In every animal which has not passed the limit of its development, a more frequent and continuous use of any organ gradually strengthens, develops and enlarges that organ, and gives it a power proportional to the length of time it has been so used; while the permanent disuse of any organ imperceptibly weakens and deteriorates it, and progressively diminishes its functional capacity, until it finally disappears. ~ Jean-Baptiste Lamarck

There is nothing fruitful except sacrifice. ~ Jean-Baptiste Henri Lacordaire

The old men running the industry just have not got a clue. They've got to come to terms with the fact that Britain is no longer a totally white place where people ride horses, wear long frocks and drink tea. The national dish is no longer fish and chips; it's curry. ~ Marianne Jean-Baptiste

I am like a child who blows up a bubble of soap. At first the bubble is very small, but it is already spherical. Then the child blows the bubble up very softly, until he is afraid that it will burst. ~ Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot

First Law
In every animal which has not passed the limit of its development, a more frequent and continuous use of any organ gradually strengthens, develops and enlarges that organ, and gives it a power proportional to the length of time it has been so used; while the permanent disuse of any organ imperceptibly weakens and deteriorates it, and progressively diminishes its functional capacity, until it finally disappears.
Second Law
All the acquisitions or losses wrought by nature on individuals, through the influence of the environment in which their race has long been placed, and hence through the influence of the predominant use or permanent disuse of any organ; all these are preserved by reproduction to the new individuals which arise, provided that the acquired modifications are common to both sexes, or at least to the individuals which produce the young. ~ Jean-Baptiste Lamarck

To the labor of man alone Smith ascribes the power of producing values. This is an error. A more exact analysis demonstrates ... that all the values are derived from the operation of labor, or rather from the industry of man, combined with the operation of those agents which nature and capital furnish him. ~ Jean-Baptiste Say

No human being has the faculty of originally creating matter, which is more than nature itself can do. But any one may avail himself of the agents offered him by nature, to invest matter with utility. ~ Jean-Baptiste Say

Law has been unjustly charged with the whole blame of the calamities resulting from the scheme that bears his name. ~ Jean-Baptiste Say

Slander is perhaps the only vice which no circumstance can palliate, as well as being one which we are most ingenious in concealing from ourselves. ~ Jean Baptiste Massillon

Do we wish men to be virtuous? Then let us begin by making them love their country. ~ Jean-Baptiste Rousseau

I thought that was my room," she said, gesturing behind him.
"It is."
"And my shower."
He sniffed with irritation. "I have a bathtub."
"And that's a problem?"
"I don't do bathtubs, Miss Burel." His eyebrow lifted. "Unless I have company. ~ Alexandra Ivy

My son, all my life I have loved this science so deeply that I can now hear my heart beat for joy.

{Commenting about Louis Pasteur's accomplishment of separating two asymmetric forms of tartaric acid crystals.} ~ Jean-Baptiste Biot

What is the motive which operates in every man's breast to counteract the impulse towards the gratification of his wants and appetites? ~ Jean-Baptiste Say