Auguste Comte Quotes

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• 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.

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  Knowledge, Science, Sound

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• Know yourself to improve yourself.

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  Know Yourself, Improving Yourself, Knows

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• Nothing is destroyed until it is replaced.

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  Atheism, Computer, Destroyed

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

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  Order, Goal, Progress

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• Everything is relative; and only that is absolute.

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  Absolutes, Relative

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• Woman is the most moral element in all humanity.

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  Women, Humanity, Elements

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• The only real life is the collective life of the race; individual life has no existence except as an abstraction.

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  Real, Race, Life Is

  Auguste Comte, John Henry Bridges (1865). “A General View of Positivism”, p.387, London, Trübner and Company

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

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  Childhood, Illusion

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• Ideas govern the world, or throw it into chaos.

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  Ideas, World, Chaos

  Auguste Comte (1975). “Auguste Comte and Positivism: The Essential Writings”, p.499, Transaction Publishers

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• Foreknowledge is power.

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  Knowledge Is Power

  "A Dictionary of Scientific Quotations". Book by Alan Lindsay Mackay, 1991.

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

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  Kings, Humanity, Atheism

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• Every science consists in the coordination of facts; if the different observations were entirely isolated, there would be no science.

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  Different, Would Be, Facts

  Auguste Comte (1851). “The Philosophy of Mathematics”, p.26

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

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  Knows

  Positive Philosophy (1832-42)

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

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  Three, Metaphysical, Abstract

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

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  Thinking, Moral, Chemistry

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• Humanity is always made up of more dead than living.

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  Humanity, Made

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• All good intellects have repeated, since Bacon's time, that there can be no real knowledge but that which is based on observed facts. This is incontestable, in our present advanced stage; but, if we look back to the primitive stage of human knowledge, we shall see that it must have been otherwise then. If it is true that every theory must be based upon observed facts; it is equally true that facts can not be observed without the guidance of some theory. Without such guidance, our facts would be desultory and fruitless; we could not retain them: for the most part we could not even perceive them.

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  Real, Science, Would Be

  "Positive Philosophy".

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• The dead govern the living.

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  Tradition

  Auguste Comte (1875). “System of Positive Polity: Social statics; or, The abstract theory of human order”, p.381

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• Induction for deduction, with a view to construction.

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  Science, Views, Scientific Method

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• But 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.

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  Country, August, Needs

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

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  Real, Atheism, Facts

  Auguste Comte (1858). “The Positive Philosophy of Auguste Comte”, p.27

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

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  Philosophy, Political Language, Causes

  Auguste Comte, John Henry Bridges (1865). “A General View of Positivism”, p.383, London, Trübner and Company

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• The 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.

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  Knowledge, Science, Law

  Auguste Comte (1975). “Auguste Comte and Positivism: The Essential Writings”, p.68, Transaction Publishers

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• The universe displays no proof of an all-directing mind.

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  Mind, Atheism, Proof

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• C'este donc par l'étude des mathématiques, et seulement par elle, que l'on peut se faire une idée juste et approfondie de ce que c'est qu'une science.

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  Math, Science

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