Quotes by Auguste Comte

“Men are not allowed to think freely about chemistry and biology: why should they be allowed to think freely about political philosophy?”

“Each department of knowledge passes through three stages. The theoretic stage; the theological stage and the metaphysical or abstract stage.”

“The dead govern the living.”

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

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

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

Each department of knowledge passes through three stages. The theoretic stage the theological stage and the metaphysical or abstract stage.