"If we do not allow free thinking in……" — Auguste Comte

"If we do not allow free thinking in chemistry or biology, why should we allow it in morals or politics?"

— Auguste Comte

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26 Quotes by Auguste Comte

Auguste Comte has 26 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

In the final, the positive, state, the mind has given over the vain search after absolute notions, the origin and…
The law is this: that each of our leading conceptions-each branch of our knowledge-passes successively through three different theoretical conditions:…
All good intellects have repeated, since Bacon's time, that there can be no real knowledge but that which is based…
In mathematics we find the primitive source of rationality; and to mathematics must the biologists resort for means to carry…
But now, I, August Comte, have discovered the truth. Therefore, there is no longer any need for freedom of thought…
Language forms a kind of wealth, which all can make use of at once without causing any diminution of the…
To understand a science it is necessary to know its history.
The sacred formula of positivism: love as a principle, the order as a foundation, and progress as a goal.
Know yourself to improve yourself.
Every attempt to employ mathematical methods in the study of chemical questions must be considered profoundly irrational and contrary to…
Each department of knowledge passes through three stages. The theoretic stage; the theological stage and the metaphysical or abstract stage.
Humanity is always made up of more dead than living.

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Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the… — Aristotle
Once you allow yourself to identify with the people in a story, then you might begin to see yourself in… — Chinua Achebe
Men have had every advantage of us in telling their own story. Education has been theirs in so much higher… — Jane Austen
If I were to give advice, I would say to parents that they ought to be very careful whom they… — Teresa of Avila
Surely, if knowledge is valuable, it can never be good policy in a country far wealthier than Tuscany, to allow… — Charles Babbage
Allow the world to live as it chooses, and allow yourself to live as you choose. — Richard Bach
Our situation today shows that beauty demands for itself at least as much courage and decision as do truth and… — Hans Urs von Balthasar
They allow us to disrespect our Black woman. A lot of these things would be considered criminal if it were… — Afrika Bambaataa
I allow a lot of room for improvisation and funny stuff. I always feel planned. — Michael Bay
Die? I should say not, dear fellow. No Barrymore would allow such a conventional thing to happen to him. — John Barrymore
An infallible method of conciliating a tiger is to allow oneself to be devoured. — Konrad Adenauer
You have to allow a certain amount of time in which you are doing nothing in order to have things… — Mortimer Adler

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