History has now been for the first time systematically considered, and has been found, like other phenomena, subject to invariable laws.
—Auguste Comte
Topics: History
Each department of knowledge passes through three stages. The theoretic stage; the theological stage and the metaphysical or abstract stage.
—Auguste Comte
Topics: Knowledge
The dead govern the living.
—Auguste Comte
Topics: Tradition
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Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel German Philosopher