All good intellects have repeated, since Bacon’s time, that there can be no real knowledge but which is based on observed facts.
AUGUSTE COMTEEverything is relative; and only that is absolute.
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Woman is the most moral element in all humanity.
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To reorganize society without God or King, by the systematic culture of Humanity.
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Foreknowledge is power.
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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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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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The only real life is the collective life of the race; individual life has no existence except as an abstraction.
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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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The heavens declare the glory of Kepler and Newton.
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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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Mathematical Analysis is… the true rational basis of the whole system of our positive knowledge.
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Induction for deduction, with a view to construction.
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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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The dead govern the living.
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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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