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"19 Auguste Comte Quotes & Sayings

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Born: 19 January 1798. Died: 5 September 1857 | Philosopher |

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.

Positivism A theory Knowledge Sound knowledge
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The sacred formula of positivism: love as a principle, the order as a foundation, and progress as a goal.

Sacred formula Positivism Love A principle
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Know yourself to improve yourself.

Know yourself To improve
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Nothing is destroyed until it is replaced.

Nothing Is destroyed Is replaced
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To reorganize society without God or King, by the systematic culture of Humanity.

Reorganized society Without God Systematic culture Humanity
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Woman is the most moral element in all humanity.
Woman Most moral Element All humanity
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Religion is an illusion of childhood, outgrown under proper education.

Religion An illusion Childhood Outgrown
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The only real life is the collective life of the race; individual life has no existence except as an abstraction.

Real life Collective life The race No existence
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Each department of knowledge passes through three stages. The theoretic stage; the theological stage and the metaphysical or abstract stage.

Each department Knowledge Passes through Three stages
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Every science consists in the coordination of facts; if the different observations were entirely isolated, there would be no science.

Every science The coordination Different observations
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If we do not allow free thinking in chemistry or biology, why should we allow it in morals or politics?

Not allow Free thinking Chemistry Biology
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Foreknowledge is power.

Foreknowledge Is power
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To understand a science it is necessary to know its history.

To understand A science To know Its history
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Ideas govern the world, or throw it into chaos.

Ideas Govern The world Into chaos
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Humanity is always made up of more dead than living.

Humanity Made up More dead Than living
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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.

Good intellects Have repeated Real knowledge Observed facts
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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.

The law Leading conceptions Our knowledge Passes successively
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The dead govern the living.

The dead Govern The living
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The word right should be excluded from political language, as the word cause from the language of philosophy.

The word Right Excluded from Political language
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Auguste Comte Quotes & Sayings