The dead govern the living.
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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To understand a science it is necessary to know its history.
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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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Ideas govern the world, or throw it into chaos.
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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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Each department of knowledge passes through three stages. The theoretic stage; the theological stage and the metaphysical or abstract stage.
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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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Mathematical Analysis is… the true rational basis of the whole system of our positive knowledge.
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To reorganize society without God or King, by the systematic culture of Humanity.
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The universe displays no proof of an all-directing mind.
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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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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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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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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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The heavens declare the glory of Kepler and Newton.
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