Induction for deduction, with a view to construction.

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.

Talent is cheap

Be aware of yourself without thinking or looking in the mirror

If your eyes dwell in your heart

Private worship excites us for public worship.

Psychoanalysis is a technique we practice at our cost; psychoanalysis degrades our risks, our dangers, our depths; it strips us of our impurities, of all that made us curious about ourselves.

For pines are gossip pines the wide world through And full of runic tales to sigh or sing.

You can't, Brooke, you can't leave. You're mine

To be truly intimate with another person, is to share every aspect of yourself with that person.

Nothing but widespread suffering will produce any effect on Congress

There is no creature so contemptible but by resolution may gain his point.