Nothing is destroyed until it is replaced.

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.

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.

Every science consists in the coordination of facts; if the different observations were entirely isolated, there would be no science.

A dancer differeth from a madman only in length of time; one is mad so long as he liveth, the other while he danceth.

I'm a survivalist and a survivor.

At thirty, man suspects himself a fool; Knows it at forty, and reforms his plan.

It's good to be funny when you are a comedian.

There! His Majesty can now read my name without glasses. And he can double the reward on my head!

In the music industry, you are in competition with everyone.

We just may be the most well-informed, yet least self-aware, people in history.

I'm not a things person. I'm not attached to my things.

Give no answer to contentious arguments or irresponsible accusations. Let such things "fly out open windows" until they spend themselves.

If you don't look good, we don't look good.