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If we do not allow free thinking in chemistry or biology, why should we allow it in morals or politics?

Auguste Comte

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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Fact Goodness Intellectual Knowledge Observation
Mathematical Analysis is… the true rational basis of the whole system of our positive knowledge.
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Basis Knowledge Mathematics Positive System
Know yourself to improve yourself.
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Improvement Known Yourself
Everything is relative; and only that is absolute.
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Absolute Philosophy Relative
The heavens declare the glory of Kepler and Newton.
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Glory Heaven Praise Scientist
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
To reorganize society without God or King, by the systematic culture of Humanity.
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Culture God Humanity Organize
Nothing is destroyed until it is replaced.
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Destroy Replacement
If we do not allow free thinking in chemistry or biology, why should we allow it in morals or politics?
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Allow Chemistry Freedom Morals Politics Thinking
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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Ground Kind Knowledge Observation Positivity Science Sound Theory
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
Religion is an illusion of childhood, outgrown under proper education.
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Childhood Education Illusion Religion
Humanity is always made up of more dead than living.
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Death Deep Humanity Live Philosophy
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
Each department of knowledge passes through three stages. The theoretic stage; the theological stage and the metaphysical or abstract stage.
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Abstract Department Knowledge Pass Theory
Woman is the most moral element in all humanity.
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Element Moral One Liner Society Woman

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