Author: Auguste Comte

Quotes

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

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

- Auguste Comte

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

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

- Auguste Comte

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

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

- Auguste Comte

Indeed, every true science has for its object the determination of certain phenomena by means of others, in accordance with the relations which exist between them.

Indeed, every true science has for its object the determination of certain phenomena by means of others, in accordance with the relations which exist between them.

- Auguste Comte

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

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

- Auguste Comte

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