The law is this: that each of our leading conceptions-each branch of our knowledge-passes successively through three different theoretical conditions: the Theological, or fictitious: the Metaphysical, or abstract; and the Scientific, or positive. Auguste Comte More Quotes by Auguste Comte More Quotes From Auguste Comte Positivism is a theory of knowledge according to which the only kind of sound knowledge available to human kind is that if science grounded in observation. Auguste Comte sound science knowledge The sacred formula of positivism: love as a principle, the order as a foundation, and progress as a goal. Auguste Comte progress goal order Nothing is destroyed until it is replaced. Auguste Comte destroyed computer atheism Know yourself to improve yourself. Auguste Comte improving-yourself know-yourself knows To reorganize society without God or King, by the systematic culture of Humanity. Auguste Comte atheism humanity kings Each department of knowledge passes through three stages. The theoretic stage; the theological stage and the metaphysical or abstract stage. Auguste Comte metaphysical abstract three Woman is the most moral element in all humanity. Auguste Comte women elements humanity Everything is relative; and only that is absolute. Auguste Comte relative absolutes The only real life is the collective life of the race; individual life has no existence except as an abstraction. Auguste Comte real race life-is Every science consists in the coordination of facts; if the different observations were entirely isolated, there would be no science. Auguste Comte different would-be facts Religion is an illusion of childhood, outgrown under proper education. Auguste Comte illusion childhood If we do not allow free thinking in chemistry or biology, why should we allow it in morals or politics? Auguste Comte chemistry moral thinking To understand a science it is necessary to know its history. Auguste Comte knows 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 of human knowledge, we shall see that it must have been otherwise then. If it is true that every theory must be based upon observed facts; it is equally true that facts can not be observed without the guidance of some theory. Without such guidance, our facts would be desultory and fruitless; we could not retain them: for the most part we could not even perceive them. Auguste Comte real would-be science Humanity is always made up of more dead than living. Auguste Comte humanity made Foreknowledge is power. Auguste Comte knowledge-is-power 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 atheism real facts But now, I, August Comte, have discovered the truth. Therefore, there is no longer any need for freedom of thought or freedom of the press. I want to rule and to organize the whole country. Auguste Comte august country needs Induction for deduction, with a view to construction. Auguste Comte scientific-method views science Ideas govern the world, or throw it into chaos. Auguste Comte chaos world ideas
