About Auguste Comte: Isidore Auguste Marie François Xavier Comte is sometimes regarded as the first philosopher of science in the modern sense of the term.
From the study of the development of human intelligence, in all directions, and through all times, the discovery arises of a great fundamental law, to which it is necessarily subject, and which has a solid foundation of proof, both in the facts of ou...
. 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 equal...
To understand a science, it is necessary to know its history.
Each department of knowledge passes through three stages. The theoretic stage; the theological stage and the metaphysical or abstract stage.
The only real life is the collective life of the race; individual life has no existence except as an abstraction.
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.
Every science consists in the coordination of facts; if the different observations were entirely isolated, there would be no science.
Men are not allowed to think freely about chemistry and biology: why should they be allowed to think freely about political philosophy?
The dead govern the living.
Know yourself to improve yourself.
Ideas govern the world, or throw it into chaos.
The word 'right' should be excluded from political language, as the word 'cause' from the language of philosophy.
The sacred formula of positivism: love as a principle, the order as a foundation, and progress as a goal.
