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 COMTEThe word right should be excluded from political language, as the word cause from the language of philosophy.
More Auguste Comte Quotes
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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 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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The only real life is the collective life of the race; individual life has no existence except as an abstraction.
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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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Foreknowledge is power.
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Ideas govern the world, or throw it into chaos.
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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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Induction for deduction, with a view to construction.
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Everything is relative; and only that is absolute.
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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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Humanity is always made up of more dead than living.
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The universe displays no proof of an all-directing mind.
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The heavens declare the glory of Kepler and Newton.
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Know yourself to improve yourself.
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The dead govern the living.
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