"Positivist" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... of Czech deputies stood in opposition against Vienna with the exception of Kramr, who tried to imitate the Polish positivist policy in the hope of obtaining concessions in return. But, as we have already shown in a previous chapter, Dr. Kramr abandoned this policy even before the war, when he saw how completely Austria was tied to Germany. The bulk of the ...
— Independent Bohemia • Vladimir Nosek
... numerous metaphysical teachings, possesses, when united to Indian ontological doctrines, such a well developed logic, such a wonderfully refined psychology, that it might well take the first rank when contrasted with the schools, ancient and modern, idealist or positivist, and eclipse them all in turn. That positivism expounded by Lewis, that makes each particular hair on the heads of Oxford theologians stand on end, is ridiculous child's play compared with the atomistic school of Vaisheshika, with its world ...
— From the Caves and Jungles of Hindostan • Helena Pretrovna Blavatsky
... found pressing with an irresistible potency into those vacant spaces of the human heart, which have from all time yearned for a closer contact with the Great Source of all love and of all force. It is in this attempt to sever the love of humanity from its Author, that the Positivist philosophy has failed: it is the worship of a husk without the kernel, of a body without the soul; and hence it will never satisfy the human aspiration. That aspiration is ever the same; it needs, if you will allow me to say so, Lady Fritterly, no new religion to satisfy its demands. If ...
— Fashionable Philosophy - and Other Sketches • Laurence Oliphant
... mind at the time. Thus, if I have just been thinking of Comte, and overhear a person exclaim, "I'm positive," I irresistibly tend, for the moment, to ascribe to him an avowal of discipleship to the great positivist. ...
— Illusions - A Psychological Study • James Sully
... letters are on Positivist affairs; three refer to the legal advice given to G. E. by Mr. Harrison in constructing the plot of Felix Holt (George Eliot's Life, by Cross, v. 3: 258); the last letter was written during her mourning for ...
— George Eliot Centenary, November 1919 • Coventry Libraries Committee
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