Philosophy consists mostly of kicking up a lot of dust and then complaining that you can’t see anything.
GOTTFRIED WILHELM LEIBNIZMusic is a secret and unconscious mathematical problem of the soul.
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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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To love is to take delight in happiness of another, or, what amounts to the same thing, it is to account another’s happiness as one’s own.
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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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Nature does not make leaps.
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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 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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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 great doctor kills more people than a great general.
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The art of discovering the causes of phenomena, or true hypotheses, is like the art of deciphering, in which an ingenious conjecture often greatly shortens the road.
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Music is nothing but unconscious arithmetic.
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It is unworthy of excellent men to lose hours like slaves in the labor of calculation which could be relegated to anyone else if machines were used.
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Make me the the master of education, and I will undertake to change the world.
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There are also two kinds of truths: truth of reasoning and truths of fact.
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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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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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