More from Auguste Comte
In mathematics we find the primitive source of rationality; and to mathematics must the biologists resort for means to carry out their researches.
Auguste ComteAuguste Comte The sacred formula of positivism: love as a principle, the order as a foundation, and progress as a goal.
Auguste ComteAuguste Comte Monotheism occupies so large a space in the view of modern minds, that it is scarcely possible to form a just estimate of the preceding phases of the theological philosophy.
Auguste ComteAuguste Comte All good intellects have repeated, since Bacon’s time, that there can be no real knowledge but which is based on observed facts.
Auguste ComteAuguste Comte Religion is an illusion of childhood, outgrown under proper education.
Auguste ComteAuguste Comte If we do not allow free thinking in chemistry or biology, why should we allow it in morals or politics?
Auguste ComteAuguste Comte Mathematical Analysis is… the true rational basis of the whole system of our positive knowledge.
Auguste ComteAuguste Comte Nothing is destroyed until it is replaced.
Auguste ComteAuguste Comte The dead govern the living.
Auguste ComteAuguste Comte Woman is the most moral element in all humanity.
Auguste ComteAuguste Comte The word right should be excluded from political language, as the word cause from the language of philosophy.
Auguste ComteAuguste Comte Men are not allowed to think freely about chemistry and biology: why should they be allowed to think freely about political philosophy?
Auguste ComteAuguste Comte The universe displays no proof of an all-directing mind.
Auguste ComteAuguste Comte Humanity is always made up of more dead than living.
Auguste ComteAuguste Comte Positivism is a theory of knowledge according to which the only kind of sound knowledge available to human kind is that if science grounded in observation.
Auguste ComteAuguste Comte Every science consists in the coordination of facts; if the different observations were entirely isolated, there would be no science.
Auguste ComteAuguste Comte
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