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.
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
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
Religion is an illusion of childhood, outgrown under proper education. - Auguste Comte
Religion is an illusion of childhood, outgrown under proper education.
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 observ… - Auguste Comte
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 observ…
Everything is relative; and only that is absolute. - Auguste Comte
Everything is relative; and only that is absolute.
Woman is the most moral element in all humanity. - Auguste Comte
Woman is the most moral element in all humanity.
Foreknowledge is power. - Auguste Comte
Foreknowledge is power.
The sacred formula of positivism: love as a principle, the order as a foundation, and progress as a goal. - Auguste Comte
The sacred formula of positivism: love as a principle, the order as a foundation, and progress as a goal.
The only real life is the collective life of the race; individual life has no existence except as an abstraction. - Auguste Comte
The only real life is the collective life of the race; individual life has no existence except as an abstraction.
Know yourself to improve yourself. - Auguste Comte
Know yourself to improve yourself.
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