Everything is relative; and only that is absolute.
AUGUSTE COMTEEach department of knowledge passes through three stages. The theoretic stage; the theological stage and the metaphysical or abstract stage.
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Woman is the most moral element in all humanity.
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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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Know yourself to improve yourself.
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Nothing is destroyed until it is replaced.
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Each department of knowledge passes through three stages. The theoretic stage; the theological stage and the metaphysical or abstract stage.
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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 universe displays no proof of an all-directing mind.
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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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Mathematical Analysis is… the true rational basis of the whole system of our positive knowledge.
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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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Ideas govern the world, or throw it into chaos.
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The dead govern the living.
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To understand a science it is necessary to know its history.
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Religion is an illusion of childhood, outgrown under proper education.
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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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