The dead govern the living.

The sacred formula of positivism: love as a principle, the order as a foundation, and progress as a goal.

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.

Woman is the most moral element in all humanity.

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.

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.

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