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

To understand a science it is necessary to know its history.

Ideas govern the world, or throw it into chaos.

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

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

Humanity is always made up of more dead than living.

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.