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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 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
Foreknowledge is power.
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Knowledge Power
Ideas govern the world, or throw it into chaos.
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Chaos Government Throw World
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
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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Carry Finding Mathematics Research Source
Everything is relative; and only that is absolute.
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Absolute Philosophy Relative
The heavens declare the glory of Kepler and Newton.
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Glory Heaven Praise Scientist
Nothing is destroyed until it is replaced.
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Destroy Replacement
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
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
To reorganize society without God or King, by the systematic culture of Humanity.
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Culture God Humanity Organize
Know yourself to improve yourself.
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Improvement Known Yourself
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
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
Religion is an illusion of childhood, outgrown under proper education.
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Childhood Education Illusion Religion
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

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