All good intellects have repeated, since Bacon’s time, that there can be no real knowledge but which is based on observed facts.
AUGUSTE COMTEIf we do not allow free thinking in chemistry or biology, why should we allow it in morals or politics?
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Mathematical Analysis is… the true rational basis of the whole system of our positive knowledge.
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Humanity is always made up of more dead than living.
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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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Woman is the most moral element in all humanity.
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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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The universe displays no proof of an all-directing mind.
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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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Each department of knowledge passes through three stages. The theoretic stage; the theological stage and the metaphysical or abstract stage.
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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 dead govern the living.
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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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Nothing is destroyed until it is replaced.
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Foreknowledge is power.
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To reorganize society without God or King, by the systematic culture of Humanity.
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Everything is relative; and only that is absolute.
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