Humanity is always made up of more dead than living.

Positivism is a theory of knowledge according to which the only kind of sound knowledge available to human kind is that if science grounded in observation.

Nothing is destroyed until it is replaced.

The sacred formula of positivism: love as a principle, the order as a foundation, and progress as a goal.

Know yourself to improve yourself.

To reorganize society without God or King, by the systematic culture of Humanity.

Each department of knowledge passes through three stages. The theoretic stage; the theological stage and the metaphysical or abstract stage.

Everything is relative; and only that is absolute.

Woman is the most moral element in all humanity.

If we do not allow free thinking in chemistry or biology, why should we allow it in morals or politics?

Religion is an illusion of childhood, outgrown under proper education.

But to live in ignorance on such a point was impossible.

Pretend to give consent to the advice of others, but if you find it suitable, take it. But if out of the right view, despise and cast it away

The unconscious is the unwritten history of mankind from time unrecorded.

No man ever sought Christ with a heart to find Him who did not find Him.

The wife's Mother said, ‘When you're dead, I'll dance in your grave.’ I said: ‘Good, I'm being buried at sea’.

I couldn't imagine living my life with another name.

Puberty hit me very hard, and I basically had no use for school once I discovered the guitar.

That's life: trust and you're betrayed; don't trust and you betray yourself.

We cannot will to have insights. We cannot will to have creativity, but we can will to give ourselves to the creative experience with intensity of dedication and commitment.

There's something to be said about all music being some translation of our languaging, our way of communicating. It's a language. This is a new language.