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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.

Auguste Comte

The universe displays no proof of an all-directing mind.
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Display Evidence Mindset Universe
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
Know yourself to improve yourself.
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Improvement Known Yourself
Everything is relative; and only that is absolute.
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Absolute Philosophy Relative
Ideas govern the world, or throw it into chaos.
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Chaos Government Throw World
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
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 understand a science it is necessary to know its history.
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History Necessary Science Understand
Every science consists in the coordination of facts; if the different observations were entirely isolated, there would be no science.
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Coordination Fact Science
Induction for deduction, with a view to construction.
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Construction View
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
The sacred formula of positivism: love as a principle, the order as a foundation, and progress as a goal.
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Command Foundation Goal Order Positivity Progress Sacred
Humanity is always made up of more dead than living.
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Death Deep Humanity Live Philosophy
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
Woman is the most moral element in all humanity.
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Element Moral One Liner Society Woman
Each department of knowledge passes through three stages. The theoretic stage; the theological stage and the metaphysical or abstract stage.
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Abstract Department Knowledge Pass Theory

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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