Induction for deduction, with a view to construction.
AUGUSTE COMTEThe word right should be excluded from political language, as the word cause from the language of philosophy.
More Auguste Comte Quotes
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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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Everything is relative; and only that is absolute.
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Woman is the most moral element in all humanity.
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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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Foreknowledge is power.
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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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To reorganize society without God or King, by the systematic culture of Humanity.
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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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The only real life is the collective life of the race; individual life has no existence except as an abstraction.
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Religion is an illusion of childhood, outgrown under proper education.
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Every science consists in the coordination of facts; if the different observations were entirely isolated, there would be no science.
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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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Each department of knowledge passes through three stages. The theoretic stage; the theological stage and the metaphysical or abstract stage.
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Nothing is destroyed until it is replaced.
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Ideas govern the world, or throw it into chaos.
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