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Foreknowledge is power.
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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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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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The only real life is the collective life of the race; individual life has no existence except as an abstraction.
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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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If we do not allow free thinking in chemistry or biology, why should we allow it in morals or politics?
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Everything is relative; and only that is absolute.
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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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Know yourself to improve yourself.
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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.
Last Update: 1 February 2023
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