After Montesquieu, the next great addition to Sociology (which is the term I may be allowed to invent to designate Social Physics) was made by Condorcet, proceeding on the views suggested by his illustrious friend Turgot.
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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