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.
GOTTFRIED WILHELM LEIBNIZI 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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It is necessary to believe that the mixture of evil has produced the greatest possible good: otherwise the evil would not have been permitted.
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Make me the the master of education, and I will undertake to change the world.
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Take what you need, do what you should, you will get what you want.
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There is nothing without a reason.
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We may say, that not only the soul (the mirror of an indestructible universe) is indestructible, but also the animal itself is, although its mechanism is frequently destroyed in parts.
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There is nothing without reason.
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Although the whole of this life were said to be nothing but a dream and the physical world nothing but a phantasm, I should call this dream or phantasm real enough, if, using reason well, we were never deceived by it.
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Justice is charity in accordance with wisdom.
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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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Indeed in general I hold that there is nothing truer than happiness, and nothing happier and sweeter than truth.
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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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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 present is great with the future.
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Everything that is possible demands to exist.
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..This is why the ultimate reason of things must lie in a necessary substance, in which the differentiation of the changes only exists eminently as in their source; and this is what we call God.
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