Огюст Конт цитаты

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

—  Огюст Конт

Слоган социологии

„Мифология умерла вместе с развитием науки.“

—  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

„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

„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

„Мёртвые правят живыми.“

—  Огюст Конт

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

„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

„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

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

—  Auguste Comte

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

„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)

„Reorganisation, irrespectively of God or king, by the worship of Humanity, systematically adopted. Man’s only right is to do his duty. The Intellect should always be the servant of the Heart, and should never be its slave.“

—  Auguste Comte

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A General View of Positivism (1848, 1856)

„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)

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

—  Auguste Comte

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

„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 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

„And now I have explained the series of social and intellectual conditions by which the discovery of sociological laws, and consequently the foundation of Positivism, was fixed for the precise date at which I began my philosophical career: that is to say, one generation after the progressive dictatorship of the Convention, and almost immediately after the fall of the retrograde tyranny of Bonaparte.“

—  Auguste Comte

Источник: A General View of Positivism (1848, 1856), p. 71