If we do not allow free thinking in chemistry or biology, why should we allow it in morals or politics?
AUGUSTE COMTEIf we do not allow free thinking in chemistry or biology, why should we allow it in morals or politics?
AUGUSTE COMTETo reorganize society without God or King, by the systematic culture of Humanity.
AUGUSTE COMTEIn mathematics we find the primitive source of rationality; and to mathematics must the biologists resort for means to carry out their researches.
AUGUSTE COMTEPositivism is a theory of knowledge according to which the only kind of sound knowledge available to human kind is that if science grounded in observation.
AUGUSTE COMTEHumanity is always made up of more dead than living.
AUGUSTE COMTEBut 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 sacred formula of positivism: love as a principle, the order as a foundation, and progress as a goal.
AUGUSTE COMTEThe only real life is the collective life of the race; individual life has no existence except as an abstraction.
AUGUSTE COMTEThe 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.
AUGUSTE COMTENothing is destroyed until it is replaced.
AUGUSTE COMTEThe universe displays no proof of an all-directing mind.
AUGUSTE COMTEKnow yourself to improve yourself.
AUGUSTE COMTETo understand a science it is necessary to know its history.
AUGUSTE COMTEEvery science consists in the coordination of facts; if the different observations were entirely isolated, there would be no science.
AUGUSTE COMTEWoman is the most moral element in all humanity.
AUGUSTE COMTEThe dead govern the living.
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