Each department of knowledge passes through three stages. The theoretic stage; the theological stage and the metaphysical or abstract stage.
AUGUSTE COMTEMonotheism 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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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 sacred formula of positivism: love as a principle, the order as a foundation, and progress as a goal.
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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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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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Religion is an illusion of childhood, outgrown under proper education.
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Ideas govern the world, or throw it into chaos.
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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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Know yourself to improve yourself.
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The word right should be excluded from political language, as the word cause from the language of philosophy.
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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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Every science consists in the coordination of facts; if the different observations were entirely isolated, there would be no science.
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Humanity is always made up of more dead than living.
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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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The dead govern the living.
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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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