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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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Induction for deduction, with a view to construction.
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Construction View
Religion is an illusion of childhood, outgrown under proper education.
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Childhood Education Illusion Religion
Mathematical Analysis is… the true rational basis of the whole system of our positive knowledge.
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Basis Knowledge Mathematics Positive System
Everything is relative; and only that is absolute.
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Absolute Philosophy Relative
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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Allow Freedom Man Philosophy Politics Thinking
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
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
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
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
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
Know yourself to improve yourself.
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Improvement Known Yourself
The word right should be excluded from political language, as the word cause from the language of philosophy.
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Language Philosophy Politics Right Word
Every science consists in the coordination of facts; if the different observations were entirely isolated, there would be no science.
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Coordination Fact Science
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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Estimate Mindset Modern Philosophy Space Theory View

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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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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