Nothing is destroyed until it is replaced.
Each department of knowledge passes through three stages. The theoretic stage; the theological stage and the metaphysical or abstract stage.
Know yourself to improve yourself.
Ideas govern the world, or throw it into chaos.
Positivism is a theory of knowledge according to which the only kind of sound knowledge available to humankind is that of science grounded in observation.
To reorganize society without God or King, by the systematic culture of Humanity.
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.
The sacred formula of positivism: love as a principle, the order as a foundation, and progress as a goal.