Auguste Comte
Auguste Comte
Isidore Auguste Marie François Xavier Comte, better known as Auguste Comte, was a French philosopher. He was a founder of the discipline of sociology and of the doctrine of positivism. He is sometimes regarded as the first philosopher of science in the modern sense of the term...
NationalityFrench
ProfessionSociologist
Date of Birth17 February 1798
CountryFrance
Auguste Comte quotes about
excluded language word
The word 'right' should be excluded from political language, as the word 'cause' from the language of philosophy.
certain determination exist means object phenomena relations science
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.
philosophy political-language causes
The word right should be excluded from political language, as the word cause from the language of philosophy.
philosophy men thinking
Men are not allowed to think freely about chemistry and biology: why should they be allowed to think freely about political philosophy?
mind atheism proof
The universe displays no proof of an all-directing mind.
heaven atheism kepler
The heavens declare the glory of Kepler and Newton.
mean research mathematics
In mathematics we find the primitive source of rationality; and to mathematics must the biologists resort for means to carry out their researches.
knowledge mean law
In the final, the positive, state, the mind has given over the vain search after absolute notions, the origin and destination of the universe, and the causes of phenomena, and applies itself to the study of their laws-that is, their invariable relations of succession and resemblance. Reasoning and observation, duly combined, are the means of this knowledge. What is now understood when we speak of an explanation of facts is simply the establishment of a connection between single phenomena and some general facts.
law history firsts
History has now been for the first time systematically considered, and has been found, like other phenomena, subject to invariable laws.
philosophy views space
Monotheism occupies so large a space in the view of modern minds, that it is scarcely possible to form a just estimate of the preceding phases of the theological philosophy.
real race life-is
The only real life is the collective life of the race; individual life has no existence except as an abstraction.
views may next
After Montesquieu, the next great addition to Sociology (which is the term I may be allowed to invent to designate Social Physics) was made by Condorcet, proceeding on the views suggested by his illustrious friend Turgot.