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Henri de Saint-Simon Quotes on Time

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 time, drawn from across the philosopher's works.

Quotes

  • Attributed to Henri de Saint-Simon:

    “Industrial society replaces feudal society.”

  • Attributed to Henri de Saint-Simon:

    “The age of the producers replaces the age of the warriors.”

  • Attributed to Henri de Saint-Simon:

    “The new Christianity is the religion of progress.”

  • “Today, for the first time since the existence of societies it is a question of organizing a totally new system; of replacing the celestial with the terrestrial, the vague by the positive, and the poetic by the real.”

    L'Industrie , as quoted in L'Ami de la Religion et du Roi: journal ecclésiastique, politique et littéraire , No. 336 (29 October 1817)