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

C'este donc par l'étude des mathématiques, et seulement par elle, que l'on peut se faire une idée juste et approfondie de ce que c'est qu'une science.

The universe displays no proof of an all-directing mind.

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

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.

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

Every attempt to employ mathematical methods in the study of chemical questions must be considered profoundly irrational and contrary to the spirit of chemistry.... if mathematical analysis should ever hold a prominent place in chemistry -- an aberration which is happily almost impossible -- it would occasion a rapid and widespread degeneration of that science.