Jean Le Rond D Alembert Quotes

As is well known the principle of virtual velocities transforms all statics into a mathematical assignment, and by D'Alembert's principle for dynamics, the latter is again reduced to statics. Although it is is very much in order that in gradual training of science and in the instruction of the individual the easier precedes the more difficult, the simple precedes the more complicated, the special precedes the general, yet the min, once it has arrived at the higher standpoint, demands the reverse process whereby all statics appears only as a very special case of mechanics. ~ Carl Friedrich Gauss

Geometry, which should only obey Physics, when united with it sometimes commands it. If it happens that the question which we wish to examine is too complicated for all the elements to be able to enter into the analytical comparison we wish to make, we separate the more inconvenient [elements], we substitute others for them, less troublesome but also less real, and we are surprised to arrive, notwithstanding a painful labour, only at a result contradicted by nature; as if after having disguised it, cut it short or altered it, a purely mechanical combination could give it back to us. ~ Jean Le Rond D'Alembert

Just go on..and faith will soon return. ~ Jean Le Rond D'Alembert

Every age, and especially our own, stands in need of a Diogenes; but the difficulty is in finding men who have the courage to be one, and men who have the patience to endure one. ~ Jean Le Rond D'Alembert

Music that paints nothing is only noise. ~ Jean Le Rond D'Alembert

The true system of the World has been recognized, developed and perfected ... Everything has been discussed and analysed, or at least mentioned. ~ Jean Le Rond D'Alembert

Push on and faith will catch up with you. ~ Jean Le Rond D'Alembert

High office, is like a pyramid; only two kinds of animals reach the summit - reptiles and eagles. ~ Jean Le Rond D'Alembert

To someone who could grasp the Universe from a unified standpoint the entire creation would appear as a unique truth and necessity. ~ Jean Le Rond D'Alembert

One magnitude is said to be the limit of another magnitude when the second may approach the first within any given magnitude, however small, though the second may never exceed the magnitude it approaches. ~ Jean Le Rond D'Alembert

There are only two kinds of certain knowledge: Awareness of our own existence and the truths of mathematics. ~ Jean Le Rond D'Alembert

The more wit we have, the less satisfied we are with it. ~ Jean Le Rond D'Alembert

Cold, still, lookin a little uncomfortable in death as if they weren't quite used to it yet. ~ Jean-Marie G. Le Clezio

They were the men and the women of the sand, of the wind, of the light, of the night. They appeared as in a dream, at the crest of a dune, as if they were born of the cloudless sky. ~ Jean-Marie G. Le Clezio

The suffering caused by the terrorists is the real torture. ~ Jean-Marie Le Pen

Marine Le Pen may want me dead, that's possible, but she must not count on my co-operation ~ Jean-Marie Le Pen

Remorse goes to sleep during a prosperous period and wakes up in adversity.
[Fr., Le remords s'endort durant un destin prospere et s'aigrit dans l'adversite.] ~ Jean-Jacques Rousseau

What's surprising is that the people who fought against torture here are the communists. ~ Jean-Marie Le Pen

However, the wind only changes the picture temporarily, the substrate remains the same and sooner or later the same picture surfaces once again. ~ Jean-Marie Le Pen

Nights are long when it's cold and you're waiting for a train. ~ Jean-Marie G. Le Clezio

My father was killed by a German mine, while I lost other relatives in Allied bombing attacks. ~ Jean-Marie Le Pen

We know of no other event like it in the history of the world, except perhaps the first confrontation in Europe between the neolithic peoples who came from the East and the primitive hunters. But no witness ever wrote of that great drama. ~ Jean-Marie G. Le Clezio

Now I know that without mirrors we are different, we're not really the same ... Maybe they had noticed us looking worriedly at other people's faces, as if we wee trying to see in them what we had become ~ Jean-Marie G. Le Clezio

The much greater crimes of the Soviet Gulags occurred over decades and cost millions of lives. ~ Jean-Marie Le Pen

The fact is, that for the Huichol, and for all those who refuse, who are in flight, words and things are precisely what language does not speak about. Language is a natural act which implies belonging. He who exists, speaks. He who does not speak, does not exist. He has no place in the world. The Huichol language is Huichol to the same degree as the Huichol earth, the Huichol sky, religion, tattooing, dress, the peyoteros' hat. It is not enough to pronounce the syllables of the Huichol language to be Huichol. That is obvious. ~ Jean-Marie G. Le Clezio

For some the most terrible aspect of it was the deportations, while for others it was the leveling bombings or the mass deaths by starvation and cold. ~ Jean-Marie Le Pen

human beings, cans of living preserves ~ Jean-Marie G. Le Clezio

Maybe it was Roumiya's beauty that drove me away, her silent beauty, her eyes that seemed to be looking through everythig and draining it of all meaning. ~ Jean-Marie G. Le Clezio

Freneuse is an oddball, an idler, without any aim in life! If you ask me, he has smoked too much opium in the East, and that explains his somnolence, his morbid lethargies. It's the hazardous legacy of bad habits! He has been comprehensively undone; the heavy influence of poisonous opiates never ceases to oppress him. Besides which, his steel-blue eyes are surely the eyes of a smoker of opium. He carries the drunken burden of hemp in his veins. Opium is like syphilis' - le Mazel released the word carelessly - 'it is a thing which stays for years and years in the blood, because the body is unable to purge itself. It must be absorbed, in the long run, by iodide. ~ Jean Lorrain

Beauty is in the streets," they say in Paris. We travelers know our favorites, Parisians know theirs. Jean Genet liked to stand with his friend Giacometti at the foot of rue Oberkampf, taking in its long uphill from the Marais to Belleville. Simone Weil loved walking the quays of Île Saint-Louis in her native river city. The scruffy streets of the ninth were François Truffaut's muse and mother.

As cities evolve and erupt, streets change; Parisians come and go. But the beauty remains. ~ Susan Cahill

Political rivals attacked me. I was savagely beaten. I was kicked in the face and I lost my eye as a result. ~ Jean-Marie Le Pen

for the existentialists, what generated anxiety was not the godlessness of the world, per se, but rather the freedom to choose between God and godlessness. Though freedom is something we actively seek, the freedom to choose generates anxiety. "When I behold my possibilities," Kierkegaard wrote, "I experience that dread which is the dizziness of freedom, and my choice is made in fear and trembling." Many people try to flee anxiety by fleeing choice. This helps explain the perverse-seeming appeal of authoritarian societies - the certainties of a rigid, choiceless society can be very reassuring - and why times of upheaval so often produce extremist leaders and movements: Hitler in Weimar Germany, Father Coughlin in Depression-era America, or Jean-Marie Le Pen in France and Vladimir Putin in Russia today. But running from anxiety, Kierkegaard believed, was a mistake because anxiety was a "school" that taught people to come to terms with the human condition. ~ Scott Stossel

As for me, even though I have been accused of anti-Semitism countless times, no one has ever heard me make anti-Semitic statements or engage in anti-Semitic behavior. ~ Jean-Marie Le Pen

You cannot speak on behalf of a nation when you have no mandate to do so. ~ Jean-Marie Le Pen

France was an occupied country, a country that surrendered and was left without the right to choose. ~ Jean-Marie Le Pen

It is, I believe, the primary charm of poetry to give the lesson of mirage, that is, to show the fragile and vibrant movement of creation, in which the word is in a certain way human quintessence, prayer. ~ Jean-Marie G. Le Clezio