Humanity is always made up of more dead than living.
AUGUSTE COMTEPositivism 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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Ideas govern the world, or throw it into chaos.
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Every science consists in the coordination of facts; if the different observations were entirely isolated, there would be no science.
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The only real life is the collective life of the race; individual life has no existence except as an abstraction.
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The sacred formula of positivism: love as a principle, the order as a foundation, and progress as a goal.
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Each department of knowledge passes through three stages. The theoretic stage; the theological stage and the metaphysical or abstract stage.
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Everything is relative; and only that is absolute.
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To reorganize society without God or King, by the systematic culture of Humanity.
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Woman is the most moral element in all humanity.
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If we do not allow free thinking in chemistry or biology, why should we allow it in morals or politics?
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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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The dead govern the living.
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The heavens declare the glory of Kepler and Newton.
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Mathematical Analysis is… the true rational basis of the whole system of our positive knowledge.
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To understand a science it is necessary to know its history.
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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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