Auguste Comte Quotes
Know yourself to improve yourself.
Citations
Comte, Auguste. The Catechism of Positive Religion. Translated by Richard Congreve, John Chapman, 1858.
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Isidore Marie Auguste François Xavier Comte was a French philosopher and writer who formulated the doctrine of positivism. He is often regarded as the first philosopher of science in the modern sense of the term. Comte's ideas were also fundamental to the development of sociology; indeed, he invented the term and treated that discipline as the crowning achievement of the sciences.