Mathematical Analysis is… the true rational basis of the whole system of our positive knowledge.
AUGUSTE COMTEIf we do not allow free thinking in chemistry or biology, why should we allow it in morals or politics?
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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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Men are not allowed to think freely about chemistry and biology: why should they be allowed to think freely about political philosophy?
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In mathematics we find the primitive source of rationality; and to mathematics must the biologists resort for means to carry out their researches.
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The universe displays no proof of an all-directing mind.
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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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Ideas govern the world, or throw it into chaos.
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Everything is relative; and only that is absolute.
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Woman is the most moral element in all humanity.
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The dead govern the living.
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Foreknowledge is power.
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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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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 word right should be excluded from political language, as the word cause from the language of philosophy.
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But now, I, August Comte, have discovered the truth. Therefore, there is no longer any need for freedom of thought or freedom of the press. I want to rule and to organize the whole country.
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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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