The word right should be excluded from political language, as the word cause from the language of philosophy.
AUGUSTE COMTE
AUGUSTE COMTE
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Auguste Comte29 quotes“The word right should be excluded from political language, as the word cause from the language of philosophy.”
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To reorganize society without God or King, by the systematic culture of Humanity.
Auguste ComteAuguste Comte The heavens declare the glory of Kepler and Newton.
Auguste ComteAuguste Comte Each department of knowledge passes through three stages. The theoretic stage; the theological stage and the metaphysical or abstract stage.
Auguste ComteAuguste Comte In mathematics we find the primitive source of rationality; and to mathematics must the biologists resort for means to carry out their researches.
Auguste ComteAuguste Comte The sacred formula of positivism: love as a principle, the order as a foundation, and progress as a goal.
Auguste ComteAuguste Comte 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.
Auguste ComteAuguste Comte All good intellects have repeated, since Bacon’s time, that there can be no real knowledge but which is based on observed facts.
Auguste ComteAuguste Comte Religion is an illusion of childhood, outgrown under proper education.
Auguste ComteAuguste Comte If we do not allow free thinking in chemistry or biology, why should we allow it in morals or politics?
Auguste ComteAuguste Comte Mathematical Analysis is… the true rational basis of the whole system of our positive knowledge.
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Auguste ComteAuguste Comte The dead govern the living.
Auguste ComteAuguste Comte Woman is the most moral element in all humanity.
Auguste ComteAuguste Comte Men are not allowed to think freely about chemistry and biology: why should they be allowed to think freely about political philosophy?
Auguste ComteAuguste Comte The universe displays no proof of an all-directing mind.
Auguste ComteAuguste Comte Humanity is always made up of more dead than living.
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