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.
AUGUSTE COMTEEach department of knowledge passes through three stages. The theoretic stage; the theological stage and the metaphysical or abstract stage.
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Religion is an illusion of childhood, outgrown under proper education.
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To understand a science it is necessary to know its history.
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Everything is relative; and only that is absolute.
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To reorganize society without God or King, by the systematic culture of Humanity.
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The heavens declare the glory of Kepler and Newton.
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The universe displays no proof of an all-directing mind.
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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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Woman is the most moral element in all humanity.
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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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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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Know yourself to improve yourself.
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Humanity is always made up of more dead than living.
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Nothing is destroyed until it is replaced.
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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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