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

Auguste Comte

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
Ideas govern the world, or throw it into chaos.
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Chaos Government Throw World
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
To understand a science it is necessary to know its history.
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History Necessary Science Understand
If we do not allow free thinking in chemistry or biology, why should we allow it in morals or politics?
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Allow Chemistry Freedom Morals Politics Thinking
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
The dead govern the living.
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Death Government Live One Liner
Know yourself to improve yourself.
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Improvement Known Yourself
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 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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Conception Knowledge Law Leadership Positive Science
Monotheism occupies so large a space in the view of modern minds, that it is scarcely possible to form a just estimate of the preceding phases of the theological philosophy.
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Estimate Mindset Modern Philosophy Space Theory View
The word right should be excluded from political language, as the word cause from the language of philosophy.
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Language Philosophy Politics Right Word
Induction for deduction, with a view to construction.
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Construction View
Nothing is destroyed until it is replaced.
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Destroy Replacement
Humanity is always made up of more dead than living.
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Death Deep Humanity Live Philosophy
The heavens declare the glory of Kepler and Newton.
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Glory Heaven Praise Scientist

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