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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.

Auguste Comte

Religion is an illusion of childhood, outgrown under proper education.
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Childhood Education Illusion Religion
The only real life is the collective life of the race; individual life has no existence except as an abstraction.
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Collective Exception Existence Individual Life Race Reality
The universe displays no proof of an all-directing mind.
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Display Evidence Mindset Universe
To reorganize society without God or King, by the systematic culture of Humanity.
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Culture God Humanity Organize
The dead govern the living.
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Death Government Live One Liner
To understand a science it is necessary to know its history.
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History Necessary Science Understand
Mathematical Analysis is… the true rational basis of the whole system of our positive knowledge.
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Basis Knowledge Mathematics Positive System
Induction for deduction, with a view to construction.
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Construction View
Everything is relative; and only that is absolute.
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Absolute Philosophy Relative
The sacred formula of positivism: love as a principle, the order as a foundation, and progress as a goal.
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Command Foundation Goal Order Positivity Progress Sacred
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
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
Ideas govern the world, or throw it into chaos.
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Chaos Government Throw World
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
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
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

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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