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But it is the knowledge of necessary and eternal truths which distinguishes us from mere animals, and gives us reason and the sciences, raising us to knowledge of ourselves and God. It is this in us which we call the rational soul or mind.

Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz

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Make me the the master of education, and I will undertake to change the world.
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Every present state of a simple substance is the natural consequence of its preceding state, in such a way that its present is big with its future.
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The pleasure we obtain from music comes from counting, but counting unconsciously. Music is nothing but unconscious arithmetic.
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A great doctor kills more people than a great general.
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Justice is charity in accordance with wisdom.
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Music is nothing but unconscious arithmetic.
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To love is to be delighted by the happiness of someone, or to experience pleasure upon the happiness of another. I define this as true love.
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The knowledge which we have acquired ought not to resemble a great shop without order, and without an inventory; we ought to know what we possess, and be able to make it serve us in need.
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What is is what must be.
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I hold that it is only when we can prove everything we assert that we understand perfectly the thing under consideration.
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Evidence Hold Myself Perfection Understand
Our reasonings are grounded upon two great principles, that of contradiction, in virtue of which we judge false that which involves a contradiction, and true that which is opposed or contradictory to the false.
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It’s easier to be original and foolish than original and wise.
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If you have a clear idea of a soul, you will have a clear idea of a form; for it is of the same genus, though a different species.
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He who understands Archimedes and Apollonius will admire less the achievements of the foremost men of later times.
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I do not conceive of any reality at all as without genuine unity.
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Men act like brutes in so far as the sequences of their perceptions arise through the principle of memory only, like those empirical physicians who have mere practice without theory.
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