Each department of knowledge passes through three stages. The theoretic stage; the theological stage and the metaphysical or abstract stage.
AUGUSTE COMTEMen 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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Woman is the most moral element in all humanity.
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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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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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Mathematical Analysis is… the true rational basis of the whole system of our positive knowledge.
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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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Everything is relative; and only that is absolute.
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The dead govern the living.
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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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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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If we do not allow free thinking in chemistry or biology, why should we allow it in morals or politics?
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The universe displays no proof of an all-directing mind.
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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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Ideas govern the world, or throw it into chaos.
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