Henri de Saint-Simon Quotes on Knowledge
Claude Henri de Rouvroy, Comte de Saint-Simon, was a French political philosopher, theorist of industrial society, and one of the founders of socialist thought. This page collects quotes attributed to Henri de Saint-Simon on the topic of knowledge, drawn from across the philosopher's works.
Quotes
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“La politique est … la science de la production.”
Politics is the science of production . De L'Industrie (1816), in Saint-Simon: sa víe et ses travaux (1857), by M. G. Hubbard, pp. 156–157 -
“as quoted from The New International Encyclopædia, Volume 17, (1905 edition) p. 471, by Gilman, Daniel Coit; Colby, Frank Moore; Peck, Harry Thurston. Editor Dodd, Mead.”
No man has a right to free himself from the law of labour -
“Syst. Indus, VI, 17, as quoted from E.Durkheim, Socialism and Saint-Simon (1958)”
True equality consists in each drawing benefits from society in exact proportion to his social outlay, that is to his real capacity, to the beneficent use he makes of his abilities. And this equality is the natural foundation of industrial society. -
“Syst. Indus, VI, 17, as quoted from E.Durkheim, Socialism and Saint-Simon (1958)”
Equality is the natural foundation of industrial society -
“In the old system Society is governed essentially by men; in the new it is governed only by principles”
Org, IV, 197, as quoted from E.Durkheim, Socialism and Saint-Simon (1958) -
“Org, IV, 197, as quoted from E.Durkheim, Socialism and Saint-Simon (1958)”
In the old system Society is governed essentially by men; in the new it is governed only by principles