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.
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 COMTEInduction for deduction, with a view to construction.
AUGUSTE COMTEMen are not allowed to think freely about chemistry and biology: why should they be allowed to think freely about political philosophy?
AUGUSTE COMTEForeknowledge is power.
AUGUSTE COMTEIf we do not allow free thinking in chemistry or biology, why should we allow it in morals or politics?
AUGUSTE COMTEThe universe displays no proof of an all-directing mind.
AUGUSTE COMTETo reorganize society without God or King, by the systematic culture of Humanity.
AUGUSTE COMTEThe only real life is the collective life of the race; individual life has no existence except as an abstraction.
AUGUSTE COMTEThe dead govern the living.
AUGUSTE COMTEEvery science consists in the coordination of facts; if the different observations were entirely isolated, there would be no science.
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 COMTEThe heavens declare the glory of Kepler and Newton.
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 COMTENothing is destroyed until it is replaced.
AUGUSTE COMTEAll good intellects have repeated, since Bacon’s time, that there can be no real knowledge but which is based on observed facts.
AUGUSTE COMTEHumanity is always made up of more dead than living.
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