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The only real life is the collective life of the race; individual life has no existence except as an abstraction.

Auguste Comte

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
Foreknowledge is power.
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Knowledge Power
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
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
Ideas govern the world, or throw it into chaos.
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Chaos Government Throw World
Induction for deduction, with a view to construction.
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Construction View
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
Nothing is destroyed until it is replaced.
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Destroy Replacement
Everything is relative; and only that is absolute.
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Absolute Philosophy Relative
Humanity is always made up of more dead than living.
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Death Deep Humanity Live Philosophy
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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Fact Goodness Intellectual Knowledge Observation
Woman is the most moral element in all humanity.
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Element Moral One Liner Society Woman
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 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 dead govern the living.
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Death Government Live One Liner

The only real life is the collective life of the race; individual life has no existence except as an abstraction.

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