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Wisdom, virtue, morality, all these have fallen out of fashion: everybody worships at the shrine of commerce.
The Theory of the Four Movements (1808)
The extension of women's rights is the basic principle of all social progress.
The Theory of the Four Movements and of the General Destinies (1808)
Such results are well worth the sacrifice of a few prejudices.
The Theory of Social Organization (1876)
There is no idea more novel, more surprising, than that of associating three hundred families of different degrees of fortune, knowledge and capacity.
The Theory of Social Organization (1876)
An empire derives no advantage from the caresses of two turtledoves who spend a year cooing to each other in public meetings.
The familial union presents as well a mixture of inconvenient ages and characters that inhibit conversation. Morality engenders a frigid atmosphere, as in all places where it reigns.
All repressed passion produces its counter-passion which is as malevolent as the natural passion would be beneficial.
Nowhere is there more constancy and more unanimity than among the French to subordinate that sex which they pretend to honor so highly.
Hitherto men have speculated vaguely on the unity of universes; it is now about to be demonstrated by reasoning from the passional world to material, guided by the analogy which exists between the two.
Every day, philosophers, you add new errors to the errors of the past, whereas we see the physical sciences daily advancing in the path of truth, and shedding as much luster upon the present century as your baseless vision have cast opprobrium upon the eighteenth.
The Theory of Social Organization (1876)
The seeds of heavenly bodies are deposited and cared for in the Milky Way, from which they emanate in swarms of comets that travel a ;long time and ordinarily gravitate towards various suns before becoming fixed in orbit.
If children are a joy for the well-to-do, they are a torment for seven-eights of all civlizees, who cannot afford to maintain and educate them.
Ignorant as regards the unity of man with himself, the world is still more ignorant in respect to the two other unities - unity of man with God and the universe.
Woman is degraded and made to believe that nature destined her exclusively to menial domestic labors, which in the combined order will be so abridged as to be performed without oppression to either sex.
The Theory of Social Organization (1876)
It is certain that nature inclines us toward the amorous orgy, just as much as toward the gastronomic orgy, and that while both are blameworthy in the excess, they would become praiseworthy in an order in which they could be equilibrated.
To speak frankly, the family bond in the civilizee regime causes fathers to desire the death of their children and children to desire the death of their fathers.
If the planets were not animate creatures endowed with functions, God would then appear to be an advocate of laziness. He would have created universes furnished with large inert bodies spending eternity in purposeless meandering as do the idlers in our society.
The Turks teach women that they have no souls, and are unworthy to enter paradise. The French would persuade them that they have no intellects, and are not made to engage in mental labors, and to tread the paths of art and science.
The Theory of Social Organization (1876)
IF the passions and characters of man were not subject, like the material kingdoms, to distribution in series of groups, man would be out of unity with the universe; there would be duplicity of system in creation, and incoherence between the material and the passional worlds. If man would attain to social uniy, he should seek for the means in the serial order, to which God has subject all nature.