To understand a science it is necessary to know its history.
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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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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Know yourself to improve yourself.
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Everything is relative; and only that is absolute.
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Nothing is destroyed until it is replaced.
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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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Humanity is always made up of more dead than living.
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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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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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Induction for deduction, with a view to construction.
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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 only real life is the collective life of the race; individual life has no existence except as an abstraction.
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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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The heavens declare the glory of Kepler and Newton.
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The universe displays no proof of an all-directing mind.
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