Men are not allowed to think freely about chemistry and biology: why should they be allowed to think freely about political philosophy?
AUGUSTE COMTEMonotheism 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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The heavens declare the glory of Kepler and Newton.
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The dead govern the living.
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Mathematical Analysis is… the true rational basis of the whole system of our positive knowledge.
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Know yourself to improve yourself.
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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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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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Every science consists in the coordination of facts; if the different observations were entirely isolated, there would be no science.
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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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To reorganize society without God or King, by the systematic culture of Humanity.
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Induction for deduction, with a view to construction.
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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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The universe displays no proof of an all-directing mind.
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To understand a science it is necessary to know its history.
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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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