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.
AUGUSTE COMTEForeknowledge is power.
More Auguste Comte Quotes
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Everything is relative; and only that is absolute.
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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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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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Mathematical Analysis is… the true rational basis of the whole system of our positive knowledge.
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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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Woman is the most moral element in all humanity.
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To understand a science it is necessary to know its history.
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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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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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The dead govern the 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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The heavens declare the glory of Kepler and Newton.
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Ideas govern the world, or throw it into chaos.
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