Ideas govern the world, or throw it into chaos.
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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The universe displays no proof of an all-directing mind.
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Know yourself to improve yourself.
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Induction for deduction, with a view to construction.
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Nothing is destroyed until it is replaced.
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To reorganize society without God or King, by the systematic culture of Humanity.
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Humanity is always made up of more dead than living.
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Woman is the most moral element in all humanity.
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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 word right should be excluded from political language, as the word cause from the language of philosophy.
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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 sacred formula of positivism: love as a principle, the order as a foundation, and progress as a goal.
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The dead govern the living.
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The heavens declare the glory of Kepler and Newton.
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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 only real life is the collective life of the race; individual life has no existence except as an abstraction.
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