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Quote by Auguste Comte
The dead govern the living. - Auguste Comte

The dead govern the living. – Auguste Comte

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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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Auguste Comte
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Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes — our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to the small and arrogant oligarchy of those who merely happen to be walking around. – G. K. Chesterton

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It cannot be inherited, and if you want it you must obtain it by great labor. – TS (Thomas Stearns) Eliot

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What greater reassurance can the weak have than that they are like anyone else? – Eric Hoffer

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To keep up even a worthwhile tradition means vitiating the idea behind it which must necessarily be in a constant state of evolution: it is mad to try to express new feelings in a mummified form. – Alfred Jarry

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