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

Woman is the most moral element in all humanity.

- 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…

- Auguste Comte

Foreknowledge is power.

- Auguste Comte

Know yourself to improve yourself.

- Auguste Comte

Everything is relative; and only that is absolute.

- Auguste Comte

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

- Auguste Comte

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

- Auguste Comte