"Ideas govern the world, or throw it into…" — Auguste Comte

"Ideas govern the world, or throw it into chaos."

— Auguste Comte

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26 Quotes by Auguste Comte

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In the final, the positive, state, the mind has given over the vain search after absolute notions, the origin and…
The law is this: that each of our leading conceptions-each branch of our knowledge-passes successively through three different theoretical conditions:…
All good intellects have repeated, since Bacon's time, that there can be no real knowledge but that which is based…
In mathematics we find the primitive source of rationality; and to mathematics must the biologists resort for means to carry…
But now, I, August Comte, have discovered the truth. Therefore, there is no longer any need for freedom of thought…
Language forms a kind of wealth, which all can make use of at once without causing any diminution of the…
To understand a science it is necessary to know its history.
The sacred formula of positivism: love as a principle, the order as a foundation, and progress as a goal.
If we do not allow free thinking in chemistry or biology, why should we allow it in morals or politics?
Know yourself to improve yourself.
Every attempt to employ mathematical methods in the study of chemical questions must be considered profoundly irrational and contrary to…
Each department of knowledge passes through three stages. The theoretic stage; the theological stage and the metaphysical or abstract stage.

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More Chaos Quotes

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We have to rethink our whole energy approach, which is hard to do because we're so dependent on oil, not… — Margaret Atwood
Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit. — Henry Adams
Chaos was the law of nature; Order was the dream of man. — Henry Adams
Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance,… — Melody Beattie
To find a form that accommodates the mess, that is the task of the artist now. — Samuel Beckett
Every passion borders on the chaotic, but the collector's passion borders on the chaos of memories. — Walter Benjamin
We learn from our gardens to deal with the most urgent question of the time: How much is enough? — Wendell Berry
The task of art today is to bring chaos into order. — Theodor Adorno
The battlefield is a scene of constant chaos. The winner will be the one who controls that chaos, both his… — Napoleon Bonaparte
A society deadened by a smothering network of laws while finding release in moral chaos is not likely to be… — Robert Bork
I was brought up in a household of chaos and I never felt stable at home. — Christina Aguilera
I have spoken honestly about being born into a home where there was discord and chaos. I saw my mom… — Christina Aguilera

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