To understand a science it is necessary to know its history.
AUGUSTE COMTEBut now, I, August Comte, have discovered the truth. Therefore, there is no longer any need for freedom of thought or freedom of the press. I want to rule and to organize the whole country.
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The word right should be excluded from political language, as the word cause from the language of philosophy.
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Every science consists in the coordination of facts; if the different observations were entirely isolated, there would be no science.
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Woman is the most moral element in all humanity.
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Monotheism occupies so large a space in the view of modern minds, that it is scarcely possible to form a just estimate of the preceding phases of the theological philosophy.
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Each department of knowledge passes through three stages. The theoretic stage; the theological stage and the metaphysical or abstract stage.
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Language forms a kind of wealth, which all can make use of at once without causing any diminution of the store, and which thus admits a complete community of enjoyment; for all, freely participating in the general treasure, unconsciously aid in its preservation.
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The dead govern the living.
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In mathematics we find the primitive source of rationality; and to mathematics must the biologists resort for means to carry out their researches.
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Ideas govern the world, or throw it into chaos.
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The only real life is the collective life of the race; individual life has no existence except as an abstraction.
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The sacred formula of positivism: love as a principle, the order as a foundation, and progress as a goal.
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Foreknowledge is power.
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Know yourself to improve yourself.
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All good intellects have repeated, since Bacon’s time, that there can be no real knowledge but which is based on observed facts.
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Humanity is always made up of more dead than living.
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