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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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Language Philosophy Politics Right Word
The universe displays no proof of an all-directing mind.
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Display Evidence Mindset Universe
The only real life is the collective life of the race; individual life has no existence except as an abstraction.
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Collective Exception Existence Individual Life Race Reality
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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Country Discover Freedom Organize Philosophy Truth
Foreknowledge is power.
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Knowledge Power
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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Enjoyment Form Language Preserve Reason Wealth
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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Fact Goodness Intellectual Knowledge Observation
To reorganize society without God or King, by the systematic culture of Humanity.
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Culture God Humanity Organize
Everything is relative; and only that is absolute.
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Absolute Philosophy Relative
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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Allow Freedom Man Philosophy Politics Thinking
Humanity is always made up of more dead than living.
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Death Deep Humanity Live Philosophy
Woman is the most moral element in all humanity.
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Element Moral One Liner Society Woman
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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Estimate Mindset Modern Philosophy Space Theory View
The law is this: that each of our leading conceptions-each branch of our knowledge-passes successively through three different theoretical conditions: the Theological, or fictitious: the Metaphysical, or abstract; and the Scientific, or positive.
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Conception Knowledge Law Leadership Positive Science
To understand a science it is necessary to know its history.
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History Necessary Science Understand
Religion is an illusion of childhood, outgrown under proper education.
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Childhood Education Illusion Religion

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