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Know yourself to improve yourself.

~Auguste Comte

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The only real life is the collective life of the race; individual life has no existence except as an abstraction.

~Auguste Comte

Topics: Abstraction Collective Except Existence Individual Life Only Race Real Real Life

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Ideas govern the world, or throw it into chaos.

~Auguste Comte

Topics: Chaos Govern Ideas Throw World

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Each department of knowledge passes through three stages. The theoretic stage; the theological stage and the metaphysical or abstract stage.

~Auguste Comte

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Every science consists in the coordination of facts; if the different observations were entirely isolated, there would be no science.

~Auguste Comte

Topics: Consists Coordination Different Entirely Every Facts Isolated Observations Science Were Would

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

~Auguste Comte

Topics: History Know Necessary Science Understand

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Men are not allowed to think freely about chemistry and biology: why should they be allowed to think freely about political philosophy?

~Auguste Comte

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Demography is destiny.

~Auguste Comte

Topics: Destiny

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The dead govern the living.

~Auguste Comte

Topics: Dead Govern Living

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The word 'right' should be excluded from political language, as the word 'cause' from the language of philosophy.

~Auguste Comte

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Biography

Nationality: French

Type: Sociologist

Born: February 17th, 1798

Died: September 5th, 1857

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