Auguste Comte

positivism love principle order foundation progress goal

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

― Auguste Comte (1798-1857)

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

― Auguste Comte (1798-1857)

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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 cannot 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.”

― Auguste Comte (1798-1857)

understand science history

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

― Auguste Comte (1798-1857)

demography destiny

“Demography is destiny.”

― Auguste Comte (1798-1857)

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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."

― Auguste Comte (1798-1857)

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"Nothing is destroyed until it is replaced."

― Auguste Comte (1798-1857)

reorganize society God king culture humanity

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

― Auguste Comte (1798-1857)

everything relative absolute

"Everything is relative; and only that is absolute."

― Auguste Comte (1798-1857)

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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."

― Auguste Comte (1798-1857)

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

― Auguste Comte (1798-1857)

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"Induction for deduction, with a view to construction."

― Auguste Comte (1798-1857)