The dead govern the living.
AUGUSTE COMTEThe dead govern the living.
AUGUSTE COMTEEach department of knowledge passes through three stages. The theoretic stage; the theological stage and the metaphysical or abstract stage.
AUGUSTE COMTENothing is destroyed until it is replaced.
AUGUSTE COMTEReligion is an illusion of childhood, outgrown under proper education.
AUGUSTE COMTETo reorganize society without God or King, by the systematic culture of Humanity.
AUGUSTE COMTEThe only real life is the collective life of the race; individual life has no existence except as an abstraction.
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 COMTEInduction for deduction, with a view to construction.
AUGUSTE COMTEEverything is relative; and only that is absolute.
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 COMTEIn mathematics we find the primitive source of rationality; and to mathematics must the biologists resort for means to carry out their researches.
AUGUSTE COMTEEvery science consists in the coordination of facts; if the different observations were entirely isolated, there would be no science.
AUGUSTE COMTEThe universe displays no proof of an all-directing mind.
AUGUSTE COMTELanguage forms a kind of wealth, which all can make use of at once without causing any diminution of the store, and which thus admits a complete community of enjoyment; for all, freely participating in the general treasure, unconsciously aid in its preservation.
AUGUSTE COMTEForeknowledge is power.
AUGUSTE COMTEKnow yourself to improve yourself.
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