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The heavens declare the glory of Kepler and Newton.

Auguste Comte

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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Ground Kind Knowledge Observation Positivity Science Sound Theory
Woman is the most moral element in all humanity.
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Element Moral One Liner Society Woman
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
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 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
To understand a science it is necessary to know its history.
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History Necessary Science Understand
The universe displays no proof of an all-directing mind.
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Display Evidence Mindset Universe
Everything is relative; and only that is absolute.
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Absolute Philosophy Relative
Induction for deduction, with a view to construction.
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Construction View
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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Allow Freedom Man Philosophy Politics Thinking
The sacred formula of positivism: love as a principle, the order as a foundation, and progress as a goal.
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Command Foundation Goal Order Positivity Progress Sacred
Mathematical Analysis is… the true rational basis of the whole system of our positive knowledge.
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Basis Knowledge Mathematics Positive System
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
Religion is an illusion of childhood, outgrown under proper education.
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Childhood Education Illusion Religion
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
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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Estimate Mindset Modern Philosophy Space Theory View

The heavens declare the glory of Kepler and Newton.

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