The word right should be excluded from political language, as the word cause from the language of philosophy.
AUGUSTE COMTEThe heavens declare the glory of Kepler and Newton.
More Auguste Comte Quotes
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Know yourself to improve yourself.
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The dead govern the living.
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Religion is an illusion of childhood, outgrown under proper education.
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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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Positivism 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.
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To understand a science it is necessary to know its history.
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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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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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Humanity is always made up of more dead than living.
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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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Ideas govern the world, or throw it into chaos.
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Induction for deduction, with a view to construction.
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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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Mathematical Analysis is… the true rational basis of the whole system of our positive knowledge.
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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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