Know yourself to improve yourself.

- Auguste Comte

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

- Auguste Comte

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.

- Auguste Comte

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

- Auguste Comte

Ideas govern the world, or throw it into chaos.

- Auguste Comte

The dead govern the living.

- Auguste Comte

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

- Auguste Comte

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

- Auguste Comte

Demography is destiny.

- Auguste Comte

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

- Auguste Comte

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

- Auguste Comte