Every science may be exhibited under two methods or procedures, the historical and the dogmatic.
~ Auguste Comte
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Category Archives: 1347 – Quote Unquote
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Our direct natural power over everything about us is extremely weak, and altogether disproportioned to our needs.
~ Auguste Comte
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Ideas govern the world, or throw it into chaos.
~ Auguste Comte
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The certainty of science, and our precision in the knowledge of it, are two very different things, which have been too often confounded.
~ Auguste Comte
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You want to make it to the top? There is no top. However high you climb, there is always somebody above you. Mailer wanted to be Hemingway, Hemingway wanted to be Joyce, and Joyce was painfully aware he’d never be another Shakespeare.
~ William Deresiewicz
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Psychologists, by dint of reading the precepts of Bacon and the discourses of Descartes, have mistaken their own dreams for science.
~ Auguste Comte
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Learning for its own sake means exactly what it says: learning is the only reason that you’re doing it, because learning is what matters.
~ William Deresiewicz
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It is only through Mathematics that we can thoroughly understand what true science is.
~ Auguste Comte
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It’s not okay to study history, because what good does that really do anyone, but it is okay to work for a hedge fund. It’s selfish to pursue your passion, unless it’s also going to make you a lot of money, in which case it isn’t selfish at all.
~ William Deresiewicz
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Language forms a kind of wealth, which all can make use of at once without causing any diminution of the store, and which thus admits a complete community of enjoyment; for all, freely participating in the general treasure, unconsciously aid in its preservation.
~ Auguste Comte
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