Christmassey?

"Jehovah the bearded and angry god, gave his worshipers the supreme example of ideal laziness: after six days of work, he rests for all eternity."
- Paul Lafargue, The Right to be Lazy [1880]

Comte

"Above all he grasped the central issue of all philosophy - the distinction between words (or thoughts) that are about words, and words (or thoughts) that are about things, and thereby helped to lay the foundation of what is best and most illuminating in modern empiricism."

- Isaiah Berlin on Auguste Comte