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

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

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

- 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

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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