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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?

Auguste Comte

The word right should be excluded from political language, as the word cause from the language of philosophy.
AUGUSTE COMTE

Language Philosophy Politics Right Word
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
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
Ideas govern the world, or throw it into chaos.
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Chaos Government Throw World
Foreknowledge is power.
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Knowledge Power
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
Humanity is always made up of more dead than living.
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Death Deep Humanity Live Philosophy
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
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
The heavens declare the glory of Kepler and Newton.
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Glory Heaven Praise Scientist
To understand a science it is necessary to know its history.
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History Necessary Science Understand
Everything is relative; and only that is absolute.
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Absolute Philosophy Relative
Nothing is destroyed until it is replaced.
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Destroy Replacement
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
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 dead govern the living.
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Death Government Live One Liner

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