All good intellects have repeated, since Bacon's time, that there can be no real knowledge but which is based on observed facts. — Auguste Comte Copy Share Image
All good intellects have repeated, since Bacon's time, that there can be no real knowledge but that which is based on observed facts. This is incontestable, in our present advanced stage; but, if we look back to the primitive stage… — Auguste Comte Copy Share Image
But now, I, August Comte, have discovered the truth. Therefore, there is no longer any need for freedom of thought or freedom of the… — Auguste Comte Copy Share Image
Indeed, every true science has for its object the determination of certain phenomena by means of others, in accordance with the relations which exist… — Auguste Comte Copy Share Image
In the final, the positive, state, the mind has given over the vain search after absolute notions, the origin and destination of the universe,… — Auguste Comte Copy Share Image
Every science consists in the coordination of facts; if the different observations were entirely isolated, there would be no science. — Auguste Comte Copy Share Image
“The human mind, by its nature, employs in its progress three methods of philosophizing, the character of which is essentially different, and even radically… — Auguste Comte Copy Share Image
Religion is an illusion of childhood, outgrown under proper education. — Auguste Comte Copy Share Image
The mathematical thermology created by Fourier may tempt us to hope that, as he has estimated the temperature of the space in which we… — Auguste Comte Copy Share Image
Monotheism occupies so large a space in the view of modern minds, that it is scarcely possible to form a just estimate of the… — Auguste Comte Copy Share Image
The word 'right' should be excluded from political language, as the word 'cause' from the language of philosophy. — Auguste Comte Copy Share Image