Auguste Comte

The word 'right' should be excluded from political language, as the word 'cause' from the language of philosophy. ”

Men are not allowed to think freely about chemistry and biology: why should they be allowed to think freely about political philosophy? ”

The dead govern the living. ”

The only real life is the collective life of the race; individual life has no existence except as an abstraction. ”

Every science consists in the coordination of facts; if the different observations were entirely isolated, there would be no science. ”

Indeed, every true science has for its object the determination of certain phenomena by means of others, in accordance with the relations which exist between them. ”

Each department of knowledge passes through three stages. The theoretic stage; the theological stage and the metaphysical or abstract stage. ”