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Everything is relative; and only that is absolute.

Auguste Comte

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
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
Ideas govern the world, or throw it into chaos.
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Chaos Government Throw World
Foreknowledge is power.
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Knowledge Power
To reorganize society without God or King, by the systematic culture of Humanity.
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Culture God Humanity Organize
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
In mathematics we find the primitive source of rationality; and to mathematics must the biologists resort for means to carry out their researches.
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Carry Finding Mathematics Research Source
Each department of knowledge passes through three stages. The theoretic stage; the theological stage and the metaphysical or abstract stage.
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Abstract Department Knowledge Pass Theory
The universe displays no proof of an all-directing mind.
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Display Evidence Mindset Universe
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
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
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
Induction for deduction, with a view to construction.
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Construction View
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

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