He who understands Archimedes and Apollonius will admire less the achievements of the foremost men of later times.
GOTTFRIED WILHELM LEIBNIZI have said more than once, that I hold space to be something purely relative, as time; an order of coexistences, as time is an order of successions.
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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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I have said more than once, that I hold space to be something purely relative, as time; an order of coexistences, as time is an order of successions.
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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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When God works miracles, he does not do it in order to supply the wants of nature, but those of grace. Whoever thinks otherwise, must needs have a very mean notion of the wisdom and power of God.
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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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All things in God are spontaneous.
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The present is saturated with the past and pregnant with the future.
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Reality cannot be found except in One single source, because of the interconnection of all things with one another.
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To love is to place happiness in the heart of another.
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Thus God alone is the primary Unity, or original simple substance, from which all monads, created and derived, are produced.
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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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Everything that is possible demands to exist.
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One cannot explain words without making incursions into the sciences themselves, as is evident from dictionaries; and, conversely, one cannot present a science without at the same time defining its terms.
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Nothing is necessitated whose opposite is possible.
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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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The world is not a machine. Everything in it is force, life, thought.
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Every mind has a horizon in respect to its present intellectual capacity but not in respect to its future intellectual capacity.
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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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We never have a full demonstration, although there is always an underlying reason for the truth, even if it is only perfectly understood by God, who alone penetrated the infinite series in one stroke of the mind.
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There is nothing without a reason.
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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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There are also two kinds of truths: truth of reasoning and truths of fact.
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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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What is is what must be.
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We live in the best of all possible worlds.
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The present is big with the future, the future might be read in the past, the distant is expressed in the near.
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