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 LEIBNIZJustice is charity in accordance with wisdom.
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I am convinced that the unwritten knowledge scattered among men of different callings surpasses in quantity and in importance anything we find in books, and that the greater part of our wealth has yet to be recorded.
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Why is there anything at all rather than nothing whatsoever?
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Philosophy consists mostly of kicking up a lot of dust and then complaining that you can’t see anything.
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In my judgment an organic machine new to nature never arises, since it always contains an infinity of organs so that it can express, in its own way, the whole universe; indeed, it always contains all past and present times.
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There is no way in which a simple substance could begin in the course of nature, since it cannot be formed by means of compounding.
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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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The world is not a machine. Everything in it is force, life, thought.
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Nothing is more important than to see the sources of invention which are, in my opinion more interesting than the inventions themselves.
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I do not conceive of any reality at all as without genuine unity.
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In symbols one observes an advantage in discovery which is greatest when they express the exact nature of a thing briefly and, as it were, picture it; then indeed the labor of thought is wonderfully diminished.
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The past is pregnant with the present.
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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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Justice is charity in accordance with wisdom.
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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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There is a certain destiny of everything, regulated by the foreknowledge and providence of God in His works.
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