Everything is relative; and only that is absolute.
AUGUSTE COMTEEverything is relative; and only that is absolute.
AUGUSTE COMTEEach department of knowledge passes through three stages. The theoretic stage; the theological stage and the metaphysical or abstract stage.
AUGUSTE COMTEKnow yourself to improve yourself.
AUGUSTE COMTEThe dead govern the living.
AUGUSTE COMTEBut now, I, August Comte, have discovered the truth. Therefore, there is no longer any need for freedom of thought or freedom of the press. I want to rule and to organize the whole country.
AUGUSTE COMTEIdeas govern the world, or throw it into chaos.
AUGUSTE COMTEPositivism 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 COMTEHumanity is always made up of more dead than living.
AUGUSTE COMTEIf we do not allow free thinking in chemistry or biology, why should we allow it in morals or politics?
AUGUSTE COMTEThe sacred formula of positivism: love as a principle, the order as a foundation, and progress as a goal.
AUGUSTE COMTEInduction for deduction, with a view to construction.
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 understand a science it is necessary to know its history.
AUGUSTE COMTEThe only real life is the collective life of the race; individual life has no existence except as an abstraction.
AUGUSTE COMTEThe universe displays no proof of an all-directing mind.
AUGUSTE COMTEEvery science consists in the coordination of facts; if the different observations were entirely isolated, there would be no science.
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