"Religion is an illusion of childhood, outgrown under……" — Auguste Comte
"Religion is an illusion of childhood, outgrown under proper education."
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26 Quotes by Auguste Comte
Auguste Comte has 26 quotes on this site.
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In the final, the positive, state, the mind has given over the vain search after absolute notions, the origin and…
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The law is this: that each of our leading conceptions-each branch of our knowledge-passes successively through three different theoretical conditions:…
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All good intellects have repeated, since Bacon's time, that there can be no real knowledge but that which is based…
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In mathematics we find the primitive source of rationality; and to mathematics must the biologists resort for means to carry…
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But now, I, August Comte, have discovered the truth. Therefore, there is no longer any need for freedom of thought…
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Language forms a kind of wealth, which all can make use of at once without causing any diminution of the…
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To understand a science it is necessary to know its history.
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The sacred formula of positivism: love as a principle, the order as a foundation, and progress as a goal.
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If we do not allow free thinking in chemistry or biology, why should we allow it in morals or politics?
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Know yourself to improve yourself.
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Every attempt to employ mathematical methods in the study of chemical questions must be considered profoundly irrational and contrary to…
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Each department of knowledge passes through three stages. The theoretic stage; the theological stage and the metaphysical or abstract stage.
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Those of us who can remember our childhoods will recall how ardently we relished the moment of the bedtime story,…
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Genius is childhood recalled at will.
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What laughter is to childhood, sex is to adolescence.
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