Atheism Quote by Auguste Comte Download Open image “To reorganize society without God or King, by the systematic culture of Humanity.” — Auguste Comte ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.4 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Atheism Culture Humanity Kings Nature of man Positive atheism Systematic Without god
To get into the best society, nowadays, one has either to feed people, amuse people, or shock people - that is all! — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Its [the anthropological method] power to make us understand the roots from which our civilization has sprung, that it impresses us with the relative… — Franz Boas Copy Share Image
It's crucial to understand that as a society, we can reorganize. We can reorganize socially, politically, and economically, and we can reorganize according to… — Rebecca Adamson Copy Share Image
“The old culture reflected fundamental human needs while respecting natural limits. And it worked. It worked for nature, and it worked for people. The… — Helena Norberg-Hodge Copy Share Image
Humanity today possesses sufficient economic, cultural and spiritual resources to introduce a better global order. — Hans Kung Copy Share Image
There's this homogenization, this big sucking motion in dominant society, to absorb all the disparate elements that define the margin or define the culture… — Todd Haynes Copy Share Image
To contribute to the emergence of a society in which development will supplant stagnation, in which growth will take the place of decay, and… — Paul A. Baran Copy Share Image
Realizing our society as it is, without theology dogmatically telling us how we should react to it, and being humane toward that society, that… — Vidal Sassoon Copy Share Image
To find freedom and happiness in each others' arms, or you know, inside their own bodies and minds. That is a very empowering thing… — Naomi Wolf 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, and the causes of phenomena, and applies itself to the study of their laws-that is, their invariable relations of succession and resemblance. Reasoning and observation, duly combined, are the means of this knowledge. What is now… — Auguste Comte Copy Share
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 opposed: viz., the theological method, the metaphysical, and the positive. Hence arises three philosophies, or general systems of conceptions on the aggregate of phenomena, each of which excludes the others. The first is the necessary point… — Auguste Comte Copy Share
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 move, me may in time ascertain the mean temperature of the heavenly bodies: but I regard this order of facts as for ever excluded from our recognition. We can never learn their internal constitution, nor, in… — Auguste Comte Copy Share
From Augustine down, theologians have tried to compel people to accept their special interpretation of the Scripture, and the tortures of the inquisition, the rack, the thumb-screw, the stake, the persecutions of witchcraft, the whipping of naked women through the streets of Boston, banishment, trials of heresy, the halter about Garrison's neck, Lovejoy's death, the branding of Captain Walker, shouts… — Matilda Joslyn Gage Copy Share
“What I have a problem with is not so much religion or god, but faith. When you say you believe something in your heart and therefore you can act on it, you have completely justified the 9/11 bombers. You have justified Charlie Manson. If it's true for you, why isn't it true for them? Why are you different? If you… — Penn Jillette Copy Share
Philosopher is a dictator who modifies accepted standards with his thoughts. — Ilkin Santak Copy Share Image
No philosophy, no religion, has ever brought so glad a message to the world as this good news of Atheism. — Annie Besant Copy Share Image
Let me tell you that atheism has never painted a masterpiece. Atheism has never dispelled fear. Atheism has never healed a disease; faith in… — John Hagee Copy Share Image
Believing with you that religion is a matter which lies solely between man and his God, that he owes account to none other for his faith or his worship, that the legislative powers of government reach actions only, and not opinions, I contemplate with sovereign reverence that act of the whole American people which declared that their legislature should 'make… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share
The inner defenses are unconscious. They consist of a kind of magic aura which the mind builds around cherished belief. Arguments which penetrate into… — Arthur Koestler Copy Share Image
A knowledge of the existence of something we cannot penetrate, of the manifestations of the profoundest reason and the most radiant beauty - it… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
You cannot ... transmute some incoherent mixture of words into sense merely by introducing the three-letter word "God" to be its grammatical subject. — Antony Flew Copy Share Image
Many humanists have argued that happiness involves a combination of hedonism and creative moral development; that an exuberant life fuses excellence and enjoyment, meaning… — Paul Kurtz Copy Share Image
If, with all the time at my disposal, with all the wealth of the resources of this vast universe, to do with as I… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image