The dead govern the living.

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.

One reads for oneself and for strangers.

You can put anything into words, except your own life

Joy is a choice, not an outcome.

I am exhausted by traditional memoir. I am exhausted by the architecture of the conventional novel.

Wisdom is the key to understanding the age, creating the time.

Hold thought steadfastly to the enduring, the good, and the true, and you will bring these into your experience proportionately to their occupancy of your thoughts.

If you get tough mentally, you can get tough physically and overcome fatigue.

If there was more courting in marriage, there'd be fewer marriages in court. Date your mate. Today.

The Gulf of Mexico is a very big ocean. The amount of volume of oil and dispersant we are putting into it is tiny in relation to the total water volume.

Music is something that even when you close your eyes it gets into your body.