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The universe displays no proof of an all-directing mind.

Auguste Comte

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
Everything is relative; and only that is absolute.
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Absolute Philosophy Relative
Religion is an illusion of childhood, outgrown under proper education.
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Childhood Education Illusion Religion
If we do not allow free thinking in chemistry or biology, why should we allow it in morals or politics?
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Allow Chemistry Freedom Morals Politics Thinking
Mathematical Analysis is… the true rational basis of the whole system of our positive knowledge.
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Basis Knowledge Mathematics Positive System
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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Fact Goodness Intellectual Knowledge Observation
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
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
Foreknowledge is power.
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Knowledge Power
Know yourself to improve yourself.
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Improvement Known Yourself
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
Nothing is destroyed until it is replaced.
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Destroy Replacement
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
Ideas govern the world, or throw it into chaos.
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Chaos Government Throw World
The word right should be excluded from political language, as the word cause from the language of philosophy.
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Language Philosophy Politics Right Word
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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