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Positivism is a theory of knowledge according to which the only kind of sound knowledge available to human kind is that if science grounded in observation.

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Ground Kind Knowledge Observation Positivity Science Sound Theory

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Marilyn Monroe Paulo Coelho Abraham Lincoln C. S. Lewis Khalil Gibran Charlie Chaplin Gautama Buddha Isaac Newton

Each department of knowledge passes through three stages. The theoretic stage; the theological stage and the metaphysical or abstract stage.
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Abstract Department Knowledge Pass Theory
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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Fact Goodness Intellectual Knowledge Observation
Induction for deduction, with a view to construction.
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Construction View
The only real life is the collective life of the race; individual life has no existence except as an abstraction.
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Collective Exception Existence Individual Life Race Reality
Every science consists in the coordination of facts; if the different observations were entirely isolated, there would be no science.
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Coordination Fact Science
Mathematical Analysis is… the true rational basis of the whole system of our positive knowledge.
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Basis Knowledge Mathematics Positive System
The word right should be excluded from political language, as the word cause from the language of philosophy.
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Language Philosophy Politics Right Word
Everything is relative; and only that is absolute.
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Absolute Philosophy Relative
Religion is an illusion of childhood, outgrown under proper education.
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Childhood Education Illusion Religion
The heavens declare the glory of Kepler and Newton.
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Glory Heaven Praise Scientist
To reorganize society without God or King, by the systematic culture of Humanity.
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Culture God Humanity Organize
If we do not allow free thinking in chemistry or biology, why should we allow it in morals or politics?
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Allow Chemistry Freedom Morals Politics Thinking
The universe displays no proof of an all-directing mind.
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Display Evidence Mindset Universe
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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Estimate Mindset Modern Philosophy Space Theory View
Humanity is always made up of more dead than living.
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Death Deep Humanity Live Philosophy
Foreknowledge is power.
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Knowledge Power

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