Language forms a kind of wealth, which all can make use of at once without causing any diminution of the store, and which thus admits a complete community of enjoyment; for all, freely participating in the general treasure, unconsciously aid in its preservation.

— Auguste Comte

Auguste Comte Quotes

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

— Auguste Comte

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

Woman is the most moral element in all humanity.

— Auguste Comte

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.

— Auguste Comte

Induction for deduction, with a view to construction.

— Auguste Comte

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

— Auguste Comte

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

— Auguste Comte

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The dead govern the living.

— Auguste Comte

Everything is relative; and only that is absolute.

— Auguste Comte

Humanity is always made up of more dead than living.

— Auguste Comte

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

— Auguste Comte

Language forms a kind of wealth, which all can make use of at once without causing any diminution of the store, and which thus admits a complete community of enjoyment; for all, freely participating in the general treasure, unconsciously aid in its preservation.

— Auguste Comte

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

— Auguste Comte

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

— Auguste Comte

Monotheism occupies so large a space in the view of modern minds, that it is scarcely possible to form a just estimate of the preceding phases of the theological philosophy.

— Auguste Comte

History has now been for the first time systematically considered, and has been found, like other phenomena, subject to invariable laws.

— Auguste Comte

In mathematics we find the primitive source of rationality; and to mathematics must the biologists resort for means to carry out their researches.

— Auguste Comte

The heavens declare the glory of Kepler and Newton.

— Auguste Comte

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

— Auguste Comte

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

— Auguste Comte

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