The word right should be excluded from political language, as the word cause from the language of philosophy.
AUGUSTE COMTEMen 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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The heavens declare the glory of Kepler and Newton.
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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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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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Mathematical Analysis is… the true rational basis of the whole system of our positive knowledge.
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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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To understand a science it is necessary to know its history.
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Everything is relative; and only that is absolute.
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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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Woman is the most moral element in all humanity.
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To reorganize society without God or King, by the systematic culture of Humanity.
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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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Religion is an illusion of childhood, outgrown under proper education.
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Humanity is always made up of more dead than living.
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Know yourself to improve yourself.
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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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