Auguste Comte

Auguste Comte (1798 - 1857) was a French philosopher, founder of positivism and sociology.

Everything is relative, and only that is absolute.
Auguste Comte

The purpose of any science is the forecasting.
Auguste Comte

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

Knowledge to foresee in order to be able.
Auguste Comte

A science is not completely known as long as one does not know its history.
Auguste Comte

The dead govern the living.
Auguste Comte

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