To understand a science it is necessary to know its history.
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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Everything is relative; and only that is absolute.
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Religion is an illusion of childhood, outgrown under proper education.
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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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Know yourself to improve yourself.
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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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Foreknowledge is power.
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Woman is the most moral element in all humanity.
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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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Nothing is destroyed until it is replaced.
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The dead govern the living.
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The universe displays no proof of an all-directing mind.
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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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Induction for deduction, with a view to construction.
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To reorganize society without God or King, by the systematic culture of Humanity.
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