Auguste Comte Quotes on Life
Auguste Comte was a French philosopher and one of the founders of sociology, a term he coined. This page collects quotes attributed to Auguste Comte on the topic of life, drawn from across the philosopher's works.
Quotes
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“The dead govern the living.”
Le Catéchisme positiviste (1852) -
Attributed to Auguste Comte:
“Live for others.”
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“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.”
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“There are three successive states of morality answering to the three principal stages of human life; the personal, the domestic, and the social stage.”
A General View of Positivism(1848, 1856) | p. 104