Every science consists in the coordination of facts; if the different observations were entirely isolated, there would be no science.
AUGUSTE COMTEWoman is the most moral element in all humanity.
More Auguste Comte Quotes
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Men are not allowed to think freely about chemistry and biology: why should they be allowed to think freely about political philosophy?
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But 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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Induction for deduction, with a view to construction.
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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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To reorganize society without God or King, by the systematic culture of Humanity.
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Everything is relative; and only that is absolute.
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Religion is an illusion of childhood, outgrown under proper education.
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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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The only real life is the collective life of the race; individual life has no existence except as an abstraction.
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Know yourself to improve yourself.
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If we do not allow free thinking in chemistry or biology, why should we allow it in morals or politics?
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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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Foreknowledge is power.
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Woman is the most moral element in all humanity.
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Ideas govern the world, or throw it into chaos.
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