Men are not allowed to think freely about chemistry and biology: why should they be allowed to think freely about political philosophy?
AUGUSTE COMTEMen are not allowed to think freely about chemistry and biology: why should they be allowed to think freely about political philosophy?
AUGUSTE COMTEReligion is an illusion of childhood, outgrown under proper education.
AUGUSTE COMTEThe sacred formula of positivism: love as a principle, the order as a foundation, and progress as a goal.
AUGUSTE COMTEHumanity is always made up of more dead than living.
AUGUSTE COMTEThe heavens declare the glory of Kepler and Newton.
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 COMTEMathematical Analysis is… the true rational basis of the whole system of our positive knowledge.
AUGUSTE COMTEEverything is relative; and only that is absolute.
AUGUSTE COMTEThe dead govern the living.
AUGUSTE COMTEThe universe displays no proof of an all-directing mind.
AUGUSTE COMTEForeknowledge is power.
AUGUSTE COMTEEvery science consists in the coordination of facts; if the different observations were entirely isolated, there would be no science.
AUGUSTE COMTEMonotheism 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.
AUGUSTE COMTEThe only real life is the collective life of the race; individual life has no existence except as an abstraction.
AUGUSTE COMTETo reorganize society without God or King, by the systematic culture of Humanity.
AUGUSTE COMTEThe word right should be excluded from political language, as the word cause from the language of philosophy.
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