All good intellects have repeated, since Bacon’s time, that there can be no real knowledge but which is based on observed facts.
AUGUSTE COMTEThe heavens declare the glory of Kepler and Newton.
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Everything is relative; and only that is absolute.
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Ideas govern the world, or throw it into chaos.
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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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Humanity is always made up of more dead than living.
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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 heavens declare the glory of Kepler and Newton.
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Induction for deduction, with a view to construction.
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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 word right should be excluded from political language, as the word cause from the language of philosophy.
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Woman is the most moral element in all humanity.
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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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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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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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The sacred formula of positivism: love as a principle, the order as a foundation, and progress as a goal.
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