"To name a thing is easy: the difficulty……" — Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

"To name a thing is easy: the difficulty is to discern it before its appearance."

— Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

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30 Quotes by Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

Pierre-Joseph Proudhon has 30 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

In any given society the authority of man over man runs in inverse proportion to the intellectual development of that…
To be governed is to be watched, inspected, spied upon, directed, law-ridden, regulated, penned up, indoctrinated, preached at, checked, appraised,…
Whoever lays his hand on me to govern me is a usurper and tyrant, and I declare him my enemy.
To be governed ... is to be watched, inspected, directed, indoctrinated, numbered, estimated, regulated, commanded, controlled, law-driven, preached at, spied…
The faults of which we ask you [God] the remittance, it is you who make us commit them; the traps…
Democracy is nothing but the Tyranny of Majorities, the most abominable tyranny of all, for it is not based on…
All my economic ideas as developed over twenty-five years can be summed up in the words: agricultural-industrial federation. All my…
By no means. I have just given you my serious and well-considered profession of faith. Although a firm friend of…
The elements of justice are identical with those of algebra.
AXIOM. — Property is the Right of Increase claimed by the Proprietor over any thing which he has stamped as…
I stand ready to negotiate, but I want no part of laws: I acknowledge none; I protest against every order…
All men in their hearts, I say, bear witness to these truths; they need only to be made to understand…

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More Appearance Quotes

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It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has… — Hannah Arendt
The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance. — Aristotle
A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from… — Aristotle
It is not once nor twice but times without number that the same ideas make their appearance in the world. — Aristotle
I would not suggest the U.S. should sit down with the North Koreans bilaterally immediately after they've fired missiles -… — Richard Armitage
Every silver lining has a cloud. — Mary Kay Ash
Clothes and manners do not make the man; but when he is made, they greatly improve his appearance. — Henry Ward Beecher
Humility is the foundation of all the other virtues hence, in the soul in which this virtue does not exist… — Saint Augustine
Nothing is more deceitful than the appearance of humility. It is often only carelessness of opinion, and sometimes an indirect… — Jane Austen
High-level, big-deal publicity has a way of getting old for me, but what never fails to thrill me is when… — Joseph Barbera
I then realized my appearance was a bit odd. My right leg was no longer with me. It had caught… — Douglas Bader
Women should try to increase their size rather than decrease it, because I believe the bigger we are, the more… — Roseanne Barr

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