Comte is a title of French nobility. In the English language, the title is count, a rank in several European nobilities. The corresponding rank in England is earl. A comte ranks below a marquis or margrave (the French have two equivalent words for the same title) and above a vicomte.

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Noun

comte m. (plural comtes; feminine comtesse, plural comtesses)

1. count, earl

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Isidore Marie Auguste François Xavier Comte (17 January 1798 – 5 September 1857) was a French philosopher who coined the terms "sociology" and "altruism".

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  • 1.1 The Positive Philosophy of Auguste Comte (1853)
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• To understand a science it is necessary to know its history.
  • A Course of Positive Philosophy (1832 - 1842) [Six volumes]

• Social positivism only accepts duties, for all and towards all. Its constant social viewpoint cannot include any notion of rights, for such notion always rests on individuality. We are born under a load of obligations of every kind, to our predecessors, to our successors, to our contemporaries. These obligations then increase or accumulate, for it is some time before we can return any service. ... Any human right is therefore as absurd as immoral. Since there are no divine rights anymore, this concept must therefore disappear completely as related only to the preliminary regime and totally inconsistent with the final state where there are only duties based on functions.
  • Le Catéchisme positiviste (1852)

• Men are not allowed to think freely about chemistry and biology: why should they be allowed to think freely about political philosophy?
  • As quoted in A Dictionary of Scientific Quotations (1991) by Alan Lindsay Mackay

• Foreknowledge is power.
  • As quoted in A Dictionary of Scientific Quotations (1991) by Alan Lindsay Mackay

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