“Language 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.”

To understand a science it is necessary to know its history.

To reorganize society without God or King, by the systematic culture of Humanity.

The heavens declare the glory of Kepler and Newton.

Each department of knowledge passes through three stages. The theoretic stage; the theological stage and the metaphysical or abstract stage.

In mathematics we find the primitive source of rationality; and to mathematics must the biologists resort for means to carry out their researches.

The sacred formula of positivism: love as a principle, the order as a foundation, and progress as a goal.

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.

All good intellects have repeated, since Bacon’s time, that there can be no real knowledge but which is based on observed facts.

Religion is an illusion of childhood, outgrown under proper education.

If we do not allow free thinking in chemistry or biology, why should we allow it in morals or politics?

Mathematical Analysis is… the true rational basis of the whole system of our positive knowledge.

Nothing is destroyed until it is replaced.

The dead govern the living.

Woman is the most moral element in all humanity.

The word right should be excluded from political language, as the word cause from the language of philosophy.

Men are not allowed to think freely about chemistry and biology: why should they be allowed to think freely about political philosophy?

I chose to treat the homosexuality like I would treat any other form of sexuality.

I am the form and I am the hollow, the thrust and the contour

Exaggeration is the cheapest form of humor.

Fanaticism comes from any form of chosen blindness accompanying the pursuit of a single dogma.

Our own heart, and not other men’s opinion, forms our true honor.

What is reality? An icicle forming in fire.

Art is the one form of human energy in the whole world, which really works for union, and destroys the barriers between man and man.

I don’t think of form as a kind of architecture. The architecture is the result of the forming. It is the kinesthetic and visual sense of position and wholeness that puts the thing into the realm of art.