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О женщинах, О дружбе, Об искренности

„Любовь как принцип, порядок как основа, прогресс как цель.“

Слоган социологии

О любви

„Мифология умерла вместе с развитием науки.“

О науке

„Истинная философия ставит себе задачей по возможности привести в стройную систему всё человеческое личное и в особенности коллективное существование, рассматривая одновременно все три класса характеризующих его явлений, именно мысли, чувства и действия. Со всех этих точек зрения основная эволюция человечества представляется необходимо самопроизвольной, и только точная оценка её естественного хода единственно может дать нам общий фундамент для мудрого вмешательства.“

О чувствах, Об истине

„Наша опаснейшая болезнь заключается в глубоком разногласии умов относительно всех основных правил, непоколебимость которых является первым условием истинного социального порядка. Приходится признать, что пока отдельные умы не примкнут единодушно к некоторому числу общих идей, на основании которых можно построить общую социальную доктрину, народы, несмотря ни на какие политические паллиативы, по необходимости останутся в революционном состоянии и будут вырабатывать только временные учреждения. Равным образом достоверно и то, что, коль скоро это единение умов на почве общности принципов состоится, соответствующие учреждения неизбежно создадутся без всякого тяжелого потрясения, так как самый главный беспорядок рассеется благодаря одному этому факту. Именно на это и должно быть главным образом направлено внимание всех тех, кто понимает важное значение действительно нормального положения вещей.“

О болезнях, Об истине

„Хотя естественный порядок во всех отношениях чрезвычайно несовершенен, его возникновение тем не менее гораздо лучше согласуется с предположением разумной воли, чем с теорией слепого механического мироздания. Поэтому закоренелых атеистов можно рассматривать как самых непоследовательных теологов, так как они занимаются теми же вопросами, отбросив единственно годный для них метод.“

О силе воли, Вопрос, О воле

„Когда мы хотим проникнуть в неразрешимую тайну сущности происхождения явлений, то мы не можем придумать ничего более удовлетворительного, как приписать их внутренним или внешним хотениям, уподобляя их, таким образом, повседневным проявлениям волнующих нас страстей.“

О страсти

„Мёртвые правят живыми.“

Источник: Большая книга афоризмов (изд. 9-е, исправленное) / составитель К. В. Душенко — М.: изд-во «Эксмо», 2008.

„There are three successive states of morality answering to the three principal stages of human life; the personal, the domestic, and the social stage.“

Источник: A General View of Positivism (1848, 1856), p. 104

„Social positivism only accepts duties, for all and towards all. Its constant social viewpoint cannot include any notion of rights, for such notion always rests on individuality.“

Le Catéchisme positiviste (1852)
Контексте: Social positivism only accepts duties, for all and towards all. Its constant social viewpoint cannot include any notion of rights, for such notion always rests on individuality. We are born under a load of obligations of every kind, to our predecessors, to our successors, to our contemporaries. These obligations then increase or accumulate, for it is some time before we can return any service. … Any human right is therefore as absurd as immoral. Since there are no divine rights anymore, this concept must therefore disappear completely as related only to the preliminary regime and totally inconsistent with the final state where there are only duties based on functions.

„The principal means of realizing it will be the formation of an alliance between philosophers and the working classes, for which both are alike prepared by the negative and positive progress of the last five centuries. The direct object of their combined action will be to set in motion the force of Public Opinion.“

Источник: A General View of Positivism (1848, 1856), p. 153

„Thus the social position of women is in this respect very similar to that of philosophers and of the working classes. And we now see why these three elements should be united. It is their combined action which constitutes the moral or modifying force of society.“

Источник: A General View of Positivism (1848, 1856), p. 235

„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.“

Volume II, p. 213
System of positive polity (1852)

„The errors of Communism must be rectified; but there is no necessity for giving up the name, which is a simple assertion of the paramount importance of Social Feeling. However, now that we have happily passed from monarchy to republicanism, the name of Communist is no longer indispensable; the word Republican expresses the meaning as well, and without the same danger. Positivism, then, has nothing to fear from Communism; on the contrary, it will probably be accepted by most Communists among the working classes, especially in France where abstractions have but little influence on minds thoroughly emancipated from theology. The people will gradually find that the solution of the great social problem which Positivism offers is better than the Communistic solution.“

Источник: A General View of Positivism (1848, 1856), p. 169

„All classes, therefore, must be brought under women’s influence; for all require to be reminded constantly of the great truth that Reason and Activity are subordinate to Feeling. Of their influence upon philosophers I have spoken. If they are men worthy of their mission, they will be conscious of the tendency which their life has to harden them and lead them into useless speculation; and they will feel the need of renewing the ardour of their social sympathy at its native source. Feeling, when it is pure and deep, corrects its own errors, because they clash with the good to which it is ever tending. But erroneous use of the intellectual or practical faculties, cannot be even recognized, much less corrected, without the aid of Affection, which is the only part of our nature that suffers directly from such errors. Therefore whenever either the philosopher or the people deviate from duty, it will be the part of women to remonstrate with them gently, and recall them to the true social principles which are entrusted to their special charge.“

Источник: A General View of Positivism (1848, 1856), p. 253-254

„A common monetary standard will be established, with the consent of the various governments, by which industrial transactions will be greatly facilitated. Three spheres made respectively of gold, silver, and platinum, and each weighing fifty grammes, would differ sufficiently in value for the purpose. The sphere should have a small flattened base, and on the great circle parallel to it the Positivist motto would be inscribed. At the pole would be the image of the immortal Charlemagne, the founder of the Western Republic, and round the image his name would be engraved, in its Latin form, Carolus; that name, respected as it is by all nations of Europe alike, would be the common appellation of the universal monetary standard.“

Источник: A General View of Positivism (1848, 1856), p. 430

„Notwithstanding the eminent difficulties of the mathematical theory of sonorous vibrations, we owe to it such progress as has yet been made in acoustics. The formation of the differential equations proper to the phenomena is, independent of their integration, a very important acquisition, on account of the approximations which mathematical analysis allows between questions, otherwise heterogeneous, which lead to similar equations. This fundamental property, whose value we have so often to recognize, applies remarkably in the present case; and especially since the creation of mathematical thermology, whose principal equations are strongly analogous to those of vibratory motion. This means of investigation is all the more valuable on account of the difficulties in the way of direct inquiry into the phenomena of sound. We may decide the necessity of the atmospheric medium for the transmission of sonorous vibrations; and we may conceive of the possibility of determining by experiment the duration of the propagation, in the air, and then through other media; but the general laws of the vibrations of sonorous bodies escape immediate observation. We should know almost nothing of the whole case if the mathematical theory did not come in to connect the different phenomena of sound, enabling us to substitute for direct observation an equivalent examination of more favorable cases subjected to the same law. For instance, when the analysis of the problem of vibrating chords has shown us that, other things being equal, the number of oscillations is hi inverse proportion to the length of the chord, we see that the most rapid vibrations of a very short chord may be counted, since the law enables us to direct our attention to very slow vibrations. The same substitution is at our command in many cases in which it is less direct.“

Bk. 3, chap. 4; as cited in: Moritz (1914, 240)
System of positive polity (1852)

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

As quoted in A Dictionary of Scientific Quotations (1991) by Alan Lindsay Mackay

„Mathematical Analysis is… the true rational basis of the whole system of our positive knowledge.“