Religion is an illusion of childhood, outgrown under proper education.
AUGUSTE COMTELanguage 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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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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Nothing is destroyed until it is replaced.
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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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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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The only real life is the collective life of the race; individual life has no existence except as an abstraction.
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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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To understand a science it is necessary to know its history.
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Know yourself to improve yourself.
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Foreknowledge is power.
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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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The heavens declare the glory of Kepler and Newton.
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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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Induction for deduction, with a view to construction.
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Everything is relative; and only that is absolute.
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