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

Woman is the most moral element in all humanity.

All good intellects have repeated, since Bacon's time, that there can be no real knowledge but which is based on observed facts.

Everything is relative; and only that is absolute.

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

Language forms a kind of wealth, which all can make use of at once without causing any diminution of the store, and which thus admits a complete community of enjoyment; for all, freely participating in the general treasure, unconsciously aid in its preservation.

Ideas govern the world, or throw it into chaos.