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The word right should be excluded from political language, as the word cause from the language of philosophy.

Auguste Comte

Mathematical Analysis is… the true rational basis of the whole system of our positive knowledge.
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Basis Knowledge Mathematics Positive System
Religion is an illusion of childhood, outgrown under proper education.
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Childhood Education Illusion Religion
Foreknowledge is power.
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Knowledge Power
Nothing is destroyed until it is replaced.
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Destroy Replacement
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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Enjoyment Form Language Preserve Reason Wealth
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
To understand a science it is necessary to know its history.
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History Necessary Science Understand
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
Everything is relative; and only that is absolute.
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Absolute Philosophy Relative
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
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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Allow Freedom Man Philosophy Politics Thinking
Humanity is always made up of more dead than living.
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Death Deep Humanity Live Philosophy
The heavens declare the glory of Kepler and Newton.
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Glory Heaven Praise Scientist
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
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
Induction for deduction, with a view to construction.
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Construction View

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