The dead govern the living.
AUGUSTE COMTEThe 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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Every science consists in the coordination of facts; if the different observations were entirely isolated, there would be no science.
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Know yourself to improve yourself.
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Foreknowledge is power.
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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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Religion is an illusion of childhood, outgrown under proper education.
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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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The only real life is the collective life of the race; individual life has no existence except as an abstraction.
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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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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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The universe displays no proof of an all-directing mind.
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Induction for deduction, with a view to construction.
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Everything is relative; and only that is absolute.
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Humanity is always made up of more dead than living.
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Nothing is destroyed until it is replaced.
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