The sacred formula of positivism: love as a principle, the order as a foundation, and progress as a goal.
AUGUSTE COMTEIdeas govern the world, or throw it into chaos.
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To understand a science it is necessary to know its history.
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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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Woman is the most moral element in all humanity.
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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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The heavens declare the glory of Kepler and Newton.
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Religion is an illusion of childhood, outgrown under proper education.
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Foreknowledge is power.
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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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Each department of knowledge passes through three stages. The theoretic stage; the theological stage and the metaphysical or abstract stage.
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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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If we do not allow free thinking in chemistry or biology, why should we allow it in morals or politics?
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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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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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Humanity is always made up of more dead than living.
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