The sacred formula of positivism: love as a principle, the order as a foundation, and progress as a goal.
AUGUSTE COMTEEvery science consists in the coordination of facts; if the different observations were entirely isolated, there would be no science.
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Foreknowledge is power.
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Induction for deduction, with a view to construction.
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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 word right should be excluded from political language, as the word cause from the language of philosophy.
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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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The universe displays no proof of an all-directing mind.
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Ideas govern the world, or throw it into chaos.
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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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Mathematical Analysis is… the true rational basis of the whole system of our positive knowledge.
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Humanity is always made up of more dead than living.
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To reorganize society without God or King, by the systematic culture of Humanity.
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Everything is relative; and only that is absolute.
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Know yourself to improve yourself.
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