Frases de Auguste Comte

„Sólo hay una máxima absoluta y es que no hay nada absoluto.“

—  Auguste Comte

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„Mucho más que los intereses es el orgullo quien nos divide.“

—  Auguste Comte

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„Las mujeres viven en una infancia perpetua.“

—  Auguste Comte

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„Vivir para los demás no es solamente una ley de deber, sino también una ley de felicidad.“

—  Auguste Comte

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„Los hombres olvidan siempre que la felicidad humana es una disposición de la mente y no condiciones de circunstancias.“

—  Auguste Comte

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„Saber para prever, a fin de poder.“

—  Auguste Comte

„Lo esencial para ser feliz es mantener siempre bien colmado el corazón, incluso de dolor. Sí; incluso de dolor, y aun el dolor más amargo.“

—  Auguste Comte

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„Sólo los buenos sentimientos pueden unirnos; el interés jamás ha forjado uniones duraderas.“

—  Auguste Comte

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„Saber es poder.“

—  Auguste Comte

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„Así, el verdadero espíritu positivo consiste, ante todo, en ver para prever, en estudiar lo que es, a fin de concluir de ello lo que será, según el dogma general de la invariabilidad de las leyes naturales.“

—  Auguste Comte

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„Los cielos proclaman la gloria de Kepler y Newton.“

—  Auguste Comte

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„¡Qué pérdida irreparable!“

—  Auguste Comte

Últimas palabras.[Sin fuentes]

„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

Fuente: 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)
Contexto: 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

Fuente: 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

Fuente: 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)