Men are not allowed to think freely about chemistry and biology: why should they be allowed to think freely about political philosophy?
- Auguste Comte
Think, Chemistry, Allowed, Biology
Every science consists in the coordination of facts; if the different observations were entirely isolated, there would be no science.
- Auguste Comte
Science, Would, Were, Observations
Each department of knowledge passes through three stages. The theoretic stage; the theological stage and the metaphysical or abstract stage.
- Auguste Comte
Through, Stage, Metaphysical, Theological
Indeed, every true science has for its object the determination of certain phenomena by means of others, in accordance with the relations which exist between them.
- Auguste Comte
Which, Means, Accordance, Object
The only real life is the collective life of the race; individual life has no existence except as an abstraction.
- Auguste Comte
Race, Only, Individual, Real Life
The word 'right' should be excluded from political language, as the word 'cause' from the language of philosophy.
- Auguste Comte
Political, Should, Excluded, Philosophy
Ideas govern the world, or throw it into chaos.
- Auguste Comte
Chaos, World, Govern, Throw
To understand a science, it is necessary to know its history.
- Auguste Comte
Science, Know, Necessary, Understand
Know yourself to improve yourself.
- Auguste Comte
Know Yourself, Improve, Know, Yourself
The dead govern the living.
- Auguste Comte
Dead, Living, Govern
Demography is destiny.
- Auguste Comte
Destiny
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