Auguste Comte, quoted by John Morley in Critical Miscellanies (1909), p. 329
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De Maistre has for me the peculiar property of helping me to estimate the philosophie capacity of people, by the repute in which they hold him.
— Auguste Comte on Joseph de Maistre
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About Auguste Comte
Isidore Marie Auguste François Xavier Comte (19 January 1798 – 5 September 1857) was a French philosopher who coined the terms "sociology" and "altruism" and developed forms of social discipline he called Positivism.
About Auguste Comte
Isidore Marie Auguste François Xavier Comte (19 January 1798 – 5 September 1857) was a French philosopher who coined the terms "sociology" and "altruism" and developed forms of social discipline he called Positivism.
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