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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.

Auguste Comte

Mathematical Analysis is… the true rational basis of the whole system of our positive knowledge.
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Basis Knowledge Mathematics Positive System
Induction for deduction, with a view to construction.
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Construction View
The law is this: that each of our leading conceptions-each branch of our knowledge-passes successively through three different theoretical conditions: the Theological, or fictitious: the Metaphysical, or abstract; and the Scientific, or positive.
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Conception Knowledge Law Leadership Positive Science
Know yourself to improve yourself.
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Improvement Known Yourself
Humanity is always made up of more dead than living.
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Death Deep Humanity Live Philosophy
Ideas govern the world, or throw it into chaos.
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Chaos Government Throw World
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
The universe displays no proof of an all-directing mind.
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Display Evidence Mindset Universe
To understand a science it is necessary to know its history.
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History Necessary Science Understand
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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Country Discover Freedom Organize Philosophy Truth
Woman is the most moral element in all humanity.
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Element Moral One Liner Society Woman
Nothing is destroyed until it is replaced.
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Destroy Replacement
Language forms a kind of wealth, which all can make use of at once without causing any diminution of the store, and which thus admits a complete community of enjoyment; for all, freely participating in the general treasure, unconsciously aid in its preservation.
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Enjoyment Form Language Preserve Reason Wealth
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
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
Religion is an illusion of childhood, outgrown under proper education.
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Childhood Education Illusion Religion

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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