Foreknowledge is power.
AUGUSTE COMTEForeknowledge is power.
AUGUSTE COMTEKnow yourself to improve yourself.
AUGUSTE COMTEMen are not allowed to think freely about chemistry and biology: why should they be allowed to think freely about political philosophy?
AUGUSTE COMTEAll good intellects have repeated, since Bacon’s time, that there can be no real knowledge but which is based on observed facts.
AUGUSTE COMTEIn mathematics we find the primitive source of rationality; and to mathematics must the biologists resort for means to carry out their researches.
AUGUSTE COMTETo reorganize society without God or King, by the systematic culture of Humanity.
AUGUSTE COMTETo understand a science it is necessary to know its history.
AUGUSTE COMTEMathematical Analysis is… the true rational basis of the whole system of our positive knowledge.
AUGUSTE COMTEThe law is this: that each of our leading conceptions-each branch of our knowledge-passes successively through three different theoretical conditions: the Theological, or fictitious: the Metaphysical, or abstract; and the Scientific, or positive.
AUGUSTE COMTEIf we do not allow free thinking in chemistry or biology, why should we allow it in morals or politics?
AUGUSTE COMTEWoman is the most moral element in all humanity.
AUGUSTE COMTEThe only real life is the collective life of the race; individual life has no existence except as an abstraction.
AUGUSTE COMTEEvery science consists in the coordination of facts; if the different observations were entirely isolated, there would be no science.
AUGUSTE COMTEThe heavens declare the glory of Kepler and Newton.
AUGUSTE COMTEThe word right should be excluded from political language, as the word cause from the language of philosophy.
AUGUSTE COMTEEverything is relative; and only that is absolute.
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