Indeed in general I hold that there is nothing truer than happiness, and nothing happier and sweeter than truth.
GOTTFRIED WILHELM LEIBNIZIndeed in general I hold that there is nothing truer than happiness, and nothing happier and sweeter than truth.
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There are also two kinds of truths: truth of reasoning and truths of fact.
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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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Nothing is necessitated whose opposite is possible.
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Nothing is accomplished all at once, and it is one of my great maxims, and one of the most completely verified, that Nature makes no leaps: a maxim which I have called the law of continuity.
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Music is a hidden arithmetic exercise of the soul, which does not know that it is counting.
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Music is nothing but unconscious arithmetic.
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The present is saturated with the past and pregnant with the future.
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I hold that the mark of a genuine idea is that its possibility can be proved, either a priori by conceiving its cause or reason, or a posteriori when experience teaches us that it is in fact in nature.
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The words ‘Here you can find perfect peace’ can be written only over the gates of a cemetery.
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A distinction must be made between true and false ideas, and that too much rein must not be given to a man’s imagination under pretext of its being a clear and distinct intellection.
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It is worth noting that the notation facilitates discovery. This, in a most wonderful way, reduces the mind’s labour.
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Justice is charity in accordance with wisdom.
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There is nothing without reason.
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I am so in favor of the actual infinite that instead of admitting that Nature abhors it, as is commonly said, I hold that Nature makes frequent use of it everywhere, in order to show more effectively the perfections of its Author.
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The past is pregnant with the present.
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