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.
AUGUSTE COMTEAll 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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Every science consists in the coordination of facts; if the different observations were entirely isolated, there would be no science.
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Foreknowledge is power.
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The universe displays no proof of an all-directing mind.
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Nothing is destroyed until it is replaced.
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Religion is an illusion of childhood, outgrown under proper education.
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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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The sacred formula of positivism: love as a principle, the order as a foundation, and progress as a goal.
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Know yourself to improve yourself.
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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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Each department of knowledge passes through three stages. The theoretic stage; the theological stage and the metaphysical or abstract stage.
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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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To understand a science it is necessary to know its history.
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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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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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