39 Quotes by Auguste Comte

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

The dead govern the living.

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

Indeed, every true science has for its object the determination of certain phenomena by means of others, in accordance with the relations which exist between them.

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

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

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

Ideas govern the world, or throw it into chaos.

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