Woman is the most moral element in all humanity.
AUGUSTE COMTEIf we do not allow free thinking in chemistry or biology, why should we allow it in morals or politics?
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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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The word right should be excluded from political language, as the word cause from the language of philosophy.
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The dead govern the living.
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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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The universe displays no proof of an all-directing mind.
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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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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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Mathematical Analysis is… the true rational basis of the whole system of our positive knowledge.
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Every science consists in the coordination of facts; if the different observations were entirely isolated, there would be no science.
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Nothing is destroyed until it is replaced.
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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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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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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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Foreknowledge is power.
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