Огюст Конт цитаты

„Единственная искренняя и прочная дружба — это существующая между мужчиной и женщиной, потому что это единственная привязанность, свободная от всякого соперничества.“

—  Огюст Конт

„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.“

—  Огюст Конт

„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.“

—  Огюст Конт

„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.“

—  Огюст Конт

„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.“

—  Огюст Конт

„Мифология умерла вместе с развитием науки.“

—  Огюст Конт

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

—  Огюст Конт

Слоган социологии

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

—  Auguste Comte

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.“

—  Auguste Comte

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.“

—  Auguste Comte

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.“

—  Auguste Comte

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

„The mathematical thermology created by Fourier may tempt us to hope that, as he has estimated the temperature of the space in which we move, me may in time ascertain the mean temperature of the heavenly bodies: but I regard this order of facts as for ever excluded from our recognition. We can never learn their internal constitution, nor, in regard to some of them, how heat is absorbed by their atmosphere. We may therefore define Astronomy as the science by which we discover the laws of the geometrical and mechanical phenomena presented by the heavenly bodies.“

—  Auguste Comte

Book II: Astronomy, Ch. I: General View
The Positive Philosophy of Auguste Comte (1853)

„The first condition of unity is a subjective principle; and this principle in the Positive system is the subordination of the intellect to the heart: Without this the unity that we seek can never be placed on a permanent basis, whether individually or collectively. It is essential to have some influence sufficiently powerful to produce convergence amid the heterogeneous and often antagonistic tendencies of so complex an organism as ours.“

—  Auguste Comte

Источник: A General View of Positivism (1848, 1856), p. 24

„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.“

—  Auguste Comte

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

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

—  Auguste Comte

A Course of Positive Philosophy (1832 - 1842) [Six volumes]

„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.“

—  Auguste Comte

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

„Every attempt to refer chemical questions to mathematical doctrines must be considered, now and always, profoundly irrational, as being contrary to the nature of the phenomena.... but if the employment of mathematical analysis should ever become so preponderant in chemistry (an aberration which is happily almost impossible) it would occasion vast and rapid retrogradation….“

—  Auguste Comte

System of positive polity (1852)

„The object of all true Philosophy is to frame a system which shall comprehend human life under every aspect, social as well as individual. It embraces, therefore, the three kinds of phenomena of which our life consists, Thoughts, Feelings, and Actions.“

—  Auguste Comte

Источник: A General View of Positivism (1848, 1856), p. 9

„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.“

—  Auguste Comte

Book VI: Social Physics, Ch. II: Principle Philosophical Attempts to Constitute a Social System
The Positive Philosophy of Auguste Comte (1853)