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Foreknowledge is power.
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The dead govern the living.
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Living
Dead
Govern
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Know yourself to improve yourself.
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Improving Yourself
Know Yourself
Knows
Yourself
Improve
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Nothing is destroyed until it is replaced.
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Atheism
Computer
Destroyed
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Ideas govern the world, or throw it into chaos.
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Chaos
Ideas
World
Govern
Throw
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Woman is the most moral element in all humanity.
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Women
Elements
Humanity
Moral
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Everything is relative; and only that is absolute.
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Absolutes
Relative
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The heavens declare the glory of Kepler and Newton.
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Atheism
Heaven
Kepler
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Humanity is always made up of more dead than living.
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Humanity
Made
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Induction for deduction, with a view to construction.
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Science
Scientific Method
Views
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The universe displays no proof of an all-directing mind.
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Atheism
Mind
Proof
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To understand a science it is necessary to know its history.
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To understand a science, it is necessary to know its history.
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History
Science
Understand
Necessary
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Religion is an illusion of childhood, outgrown under proper education.
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Childhood
Illusion
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To reorganize society without God or King, by the systematic culture of Humanity.
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Kings
Atheism
Humanity
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Mathematical Analysis is... the true rational basis of the whole system of our positive knowledge.
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Analysis
Mathematical
Rational
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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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Chemistry
Moral
Thinking
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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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Goal
Order
Progress
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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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Causes
Philosophy
Political Language
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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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Excluded
Philosophy
Cause
Word
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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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Abstraction
Existence
Individual
Individual Life
Life Is
Race
Real
Real Life
Life Real Real Life
Only
Collective
Except
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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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Atheism
Facts
Real
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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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Science
Coordination
Different
Facts
Isolated
Would Be
Consists
Entirely
Observations
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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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Men
Biology
Chemistry
Philosophy
Political
Thinking
Why
Allowed
Freely
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Each department of knowledge passes through three stages. The theoretic stage; the theological stage and the metaphysical or abstract stage.
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Abstract
Department
Metaphysical
Stage
Theological
Three
Passes
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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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Mathematics
Mean
Research
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C'este donc par l'étude des mathématiques, et seulement par elle, que l'on peut se faire une idée juste et approfondie de ce que c'est qu'une science.
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Science
Math
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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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Knowledge
Science
Sound
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Indeed, every true science has for its object the determination of certain phenomena by means of others, in accordance with the relations which exist between them.
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Determination
Accordance
Exist
Phenomena
Indeed
Object
Relations
True Science
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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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Space
Philosophy
Views
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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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August
Country
Needs
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After Montesquieu, the next great addition to Sociology (which is the term I may be allowed to invent to designate Social Physics) was made by Condorcet, proceeding on the views suggested by his illustrious friend Turgot.
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May
Next
Views
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nd now that man's history has been for the first time systematically considered as a whole, and has been found to be, like all other phenomena, subject to invariable laws, the preparatory labours of modern Science are ended.
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History
Firsts
Law
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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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Knowledge
Science
Law
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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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Community
Treasure
Use
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Every attempt to employ mathematical methods in the study of chemical questions must be considered profoundly irrational and contrary to the spirit of chemistry.... if mathematical analysis should ever hold a prominent place in chemistry -- an aberration which is happily almost impossible -- it would occasion a rapid and widespread degeneration of that science.
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Aberration
Analysis
Spirit
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In the final, the positive, state, the mind has given over the vain search after absolute notions, the origin and destination of the universe, and the causes of phenomena, and applies itself to the study of their laws - that is, their invariable relations of succession and resemblance. Reasoning and observation, duly combined, are the means of this knowledge. What is now understood when we speak of an explanation of facts is simply the establishment of a connection between single phenomena and some general facts.
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Knowledge
Science
Mean
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The mathematical thermology created by Fourier may tempt us to hope that, as he has estimated the temperature of the space in which we move, me may in time ascertain the mean temperature of the heavenly bodies: but I regard this order of facts as for ever excluded from our recognition. We can never learn their internal constitution, nor, in regard to some of them, how heat is absorbed by their atmosphere. We may therefore define Astronomy as the science by which we discover the laws of the geometrical and mechanical phenomena presented by the heavenly bodies.
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Mean
Moving
Order
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All good intellects have repeated, since Bacon's time, that there can be no real knowledge but that which is based on observed facts. This is incontestable, in our present advanced stage; but, if we look back to the primitive stage of human knowledge, we shall see that it must have been otherwise then. If it is true that every theory must be based upon observed facts; it is equally true that facts can not be observed without the guidance of some theory. Without such guidance, our facts would be desultory and fruitless; we could not retain them: for the most part we could not even perceive them.
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Science
Real
Would Be
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