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.
AUGUSTE COMTEWoman is the most moral element in all humanity.
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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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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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Religion is an illusion of childhood, outgrown under proper education.
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Woman is the most moral element in all humanity.
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Know yourself to improve yourself.
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Everything is relative; and only that is absolute.
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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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To reorganize society without God or King, by the systematic culture of Humanity.
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Nothing is destroyed until it is replaced.
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To understand a science it is necessary to know its history.
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Ideas govern the world, or throw it into chaos.
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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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The sacred formula of positivism: love as a principle, the order as a foundation, and progress as a goal.
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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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The dead govern the living.
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