Men are not allowed to think freely about chemistry and biology: why should they be allowed to think freely about political philosophy?
AUGUSTE COMTEThe only real life is the collective life of the race; individual life has no existence except as an abstraction.
More Auguste Comte Quotes
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To understand a science it is necessary to know its history.
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Mathematical Analysis is… the true rational basis of the whole system of our positive knowledge.
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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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Every science consists in the coordination of facts; if the different observations were entirely isolated, there would be no science.
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The dead govern the living.
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Induction for deduction, with a view to construction.
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The heavens declare the glory of Kepler and Newton.
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Humanity is always made up of more dead than living.
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Woman is the most moral element in all humanity.
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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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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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The word right should be excluded from political language, as the word cause from the language of philosophy.
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Foreknowledge is power.
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To reorganize society without God or King, by the systematic culture of Humanity.
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The universe displays no proof of an all-directing mind.
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