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To understand a science it is necessary to know its history.

Auguste Comte

Men are not allowed to think freely about chemistry and biology: why should they be allowed to think freely about political philosophy?
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Allow Freedom Man Philosophy Politics Thinking
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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Carry Finding Mathematics Research Source
Each department of knowledge passes through three stages. The theoretic stage; the theological stage and the metaphysical or abstract stage.
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Abstract Department Knowledge Pass Theory
The sacred formula of positivism: love as a principle, the order as a foundation, and progress as a goal.
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Command Foundation Goal Order Positivity Progress Sacred
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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Conception Knowledge Law Leadership Positive Science
The word right should be excluded from political language, as the word cause from the language of philosophy.
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Language Philosophy Politics Right Word
The heavens declare the glory of Kepler and Newton.
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Glory Heaven Praise Scientist
The universe displays no proof of an all-directing mind.
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Display Evidence Mindset Universe
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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Enjoyment Form Language Preserve Reason Wealth
Know yourself to improve yourself.
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Improvement Known Yourself
The only real life is the collective life of the race; individual life has no existence except as an abstraction.
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Collective Exception Existence Individual Life Race Reality
Induction for deduction, with a view to construction.
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Construction View
To understand a science it is necessary to know its history.
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History Necessary Science Understand
Every science consists in the coordination of facts; if the different observations were entirely isolated, there would be no science.
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Coordination Fact Science
The dead govern the living.
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Death Government Live One Liner
Religion is an illusion of childhood, outgrown under proper education.
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Childhood Education Illusion Religion

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