A great doctor kills more people than a great general.
GOTTFRIED WILHELM LEIBNIZOne 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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The knowledge which we have acquired ought not to resemble a great shop without order, and without an inventory; we ought to know what we possess, and be able to make it serve us in need.
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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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There is nothing without reason.
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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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I also take it as granted that every created thing, and consequently the created monad also, is subject to change, and indeed that this change is continual in each one.
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Take what you need, do what you should, you will get what you want.
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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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There is a world of created beings – living things, animals, entelechies, and souls – in the least part of matter. Thus there is nothing waste, nothing sterile, nothing dead in the universe; no chaos, no confusions, save in appearance.
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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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Reality cannot be found except in One single source, because of the interconnection of all things with one another.
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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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Philosophy consists mostly of kicking up a lot of dust and then complaining that you can’t see anything.
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Make me the the master of education, and I will undertake to change the world.
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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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There are also two kinds of truths: truth of reasoning and truths of fact.
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