The only real life is the collective life of the race; individual life has no existence except as an abstraction.
AUGUSTE COMTEKnow yourself to improve yourself.
More Auguste Comte Quotes
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The heavens declare the glory of Kepler and Newton.
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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 universe displays no proof of an all-directing mind.
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Ideas govern the world, or throw it into chaos.
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Nothing is destroyed until it is replaced.
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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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Mathematical Analysis is… the true rational basis of the whole system of our positive knowledge.
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Foreknowledge is power.
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Humanity is always made up of more dead than living.
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Religion is an illusion of childhood, outgrown under proper education.
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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.
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Woman is the most moral element in all humanity.
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Positivism is a theory of knowledge according to which the only kind of sound knowledge available to human kind is that if science grounded in observation.
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Everything is relative; and only that is absolute.
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The dead govern the living.
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