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If we do not allow free thinking in chemistry or biology, why should we allow it in morals or politics?

Auguste Comte

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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Country Discover Freedom Organize Philosophy Truth
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
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
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
The universe displays no proof of an all-directing mind.
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Display Evidence Mindset Universe
Know yourself to improve yourself.
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Improvement Known Yourself
The dead govern the living.
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Death Government Live One Liner
Woman is the most moral element in all humanity.
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Element Moral One Liner Society Woman
Induction for deduction, with a view to construction.
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Construction View
Humanity is always made up of more dead than living.
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Death Deep Humanity Live Philosophy
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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Fact Goodness Intellectual Knowledge Observation
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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Allow Freedom Man Philosophy Politics Thinking
Ideas govern the world, or throw it into chaos.
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Chaos Government Throw World
Religion is an illusion of childhood, outgrown under proper education.
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Childhood Education Illusion Religion
The sacred formula of positivism: love as a principle, the order as a foundation, and progress as a goal.
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Command Foundation Goal Order Positivity Progress Sacred

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