All good intellects have repeated, since Bacon’s time, that there can be no real knowledge but which is based on observed facts.
AUGUSTE COMTEAll 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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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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Mathematical Analysis is… the true rational basis of the whole system of our positive knowledge.
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Everything is relative; and only that is absolute.
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Know yourself to improve yourself.
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Religion is an illusion of childhood, outgrown under proper education.
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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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The heavens declare the glory of Kepler and Newton.
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If we do not allow free thinking in chemistry or biology, why should we allow it in morals or politics?
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The universe displays no proof of an all-directing mind.
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Humanity is always made up of more dead than living.
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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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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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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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Induction for deduction, with a view to construction.
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