Every science consists in the coordination of facts; if the different observations were entirely isolated, there would be no science.
AUGUSTE COMTEMathematical Analysis is… the true rational basis of the whole system of our positive knowledge.
More Auguste Comte Quotes
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Everything is relative; and only that is absolute.
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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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Ideas govern the world, or throw it into chaos.
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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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The universe displays no proof of an all-directing mind.
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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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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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To reorganize society without God or King, by the systematic culture of Humanity.
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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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Nothing is destroyed until it is replaced.
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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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Each department of knowledge passes through three stages. The theoretic stage; the theological stage and the metaphysical or abstract stage.
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Know yourself to improve yourself.
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Woman is the most moral element in all humanity.
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Foreknowledge is power.
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